1. Stephen Leacock - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia It was said in 1911 that more people had heard of Stephen Leacock than had heard of Canada. Also, between the years 1910 and 1925, Leacock was the single http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Leacock

Stephen Leacock From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation search This article needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding reliable references . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (June 2007) Stephen Leacock Stephen Butler Leacock, Ph.D FRSC 30 December 28 March ) was a Canadian writer and economist Contents Early life Academic and political life Literary life Death and tributes ... edit Early life Born in Swanmore Hampshire England , at age six Leacock and his family moved to Canada , settling on a farm in Egypt, Ontario, near the shores of Lake Simcoe While the family had been comfortable in England, the farm in Georgina Township of York County was not a success and Leacock's family was quite poor. His father Peter suffered from alcoholism , becoming a violent alcoholic. Leacock, always of obvious intelligence, was sent to the elite private school of Upper Canada College in Toronto , where he was top of the class and so popular he was chosen as head boy. His father left the house in 1887 and never returned. The same year, seventeen year-old Leacock started at University College at the University of Toronto , where he was admitted to the Zeta Psi fraternity, but found he could not resume the following year due to financial difficulties.

2. Stephen Leacock - Wikiquote Stephen Leacock (December 30, 1869 – March 28, 1944) was a BritishCanadian writer . Wikisource has original works written by or about Stephen Leacock. http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Stephen_Leacock

Stephen Leacock From Wikiquote Jump to: navigation search Stephen Leacock (December 30, 1869 – March 28, 1944) was a British-Canadian writer and economist. edit Sourced Special Correspondence. I learn from a very high authority, whose name I am not at liberty to mention, (speaking to me at a place which I am not allowed to indicate and in a language which I am forbidden to use)that Austria-Hungary is about to take a diplomatic step of the highest importance. What this step is, I am forbidden to say. But the consequences of itwhich unfortunately I am pledged not to disclosewill be such as to effect results which I am not free to enumerate. Source: the Hohenzollerns in America. You know, many a man realizes late in life that if when he was a boy he had known what he knows now, instead of being what he is he might be what he won't; but how few boys stop to think that if they knew what they don't know instead of being what they will be, they wouldn't be? Source: Literary Lapses (1910). The rushing of his spirit from its prison-house was as rapid as a hunted cat passing over a garden fence. Source: Ibid.

3. Stephen Leacock --  Britannica Online Encyclopedia Britannica online encyclopedia article on Stephen Leacock internationally popular Canadian humorist, educator, lecturer, and author of more than 30 books http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9047490/Stephen-Leacock

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4. Stephen Leacock Stephen Leacock. Stephen Leacock AKA Stephen Butler Leacock. Born 30Dec-1869 Father Peter Leacock Mother Agnes Emma Butler http://www.nndb.com/people/224/000084969/

This is a beta version of NNDB Search: All Names Living people Dead people Band Names Book Titles Movie Titles Full Text for Stephen Leacock AKA Stephen Butler Leacock Born: 30-Dec Birthplace: Swanmore, Hampshire, England Died: 28-Mar Location of death: Toronto, Ontario, Canada Cause of death: Cancer - Throat Gender: Male Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Author, Economist Nationality: Canada Executive summary: Literary Lapses Father: Peter Leacock Mother: Agnes Emma Butler Wife: Beatrix Hamilton (m. 1900, d. 1925 breast cancer) High School: Upper Canada College (attended 1882-87) University: BA, University of Toronto (1891) Teacher: Upper Canada College (eight years) University: PhD, University of Chicago (1903) Professor: Department Head, Economics and Political Science, McGill University (1908-36) Lorne Pierce Medal Author of books: Elements of Political Science Practical Political Economy , economics) Literary Lapses Nonsense Novels Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town Behind the Beyond, and Other Contributions to Human Knowledge Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich Adventures of the Far North The Dawn of Canadian History Moonbeams from the Larger Lunacy The Hohenzollerns in America Winsome Winnie The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice My Discovery of England Winnowed Wisdom Short Circuits The Economic Prosperity of the British Empire , economics) Mark Twain , biography) Charles Dickens, His Life and Work

5. The Greatest Literature Of All Time - Stephen Leacock Stephen Leacock once complained of critics who thought what he did was very simple, quoting a review What is there is, after all, in Professor Leacock s http://www.editoreric.com/greatlit/authors/Leacock.html

See also: My Financial Career Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town Arcadian Adventures With the Idle Rich Samples of Leacock's work Home pages: The Greatest Literature of All Time Selected Authors Selected Greatest Works Editor Eric LEACOCK, Stephen Stephen Leacock once complained of critics who thought what he did was very simple, quoting a review: "What is there is, after all, in Professor Leacock's humour but a rather ingenious mixture of hyperbole and myosis?" Leacock commented: The man was right. How he stumbled on this trade secret I do not know. But I am willing to admit, since the truth is out, that it has been my custom in preparing an article of a humorous nature to go down to the cellar and mix up half a gallon of myosis with a pint of hyperbole. If I want to give the article a decidedly literary character, I find it well to put in about half a pint of paresis. ("Humour as I See It")

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Our Catalogue E-Resources Reader's Caf© Book Club Sets ... About Us Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour winners in our Catalogue. The only award of its kind for Canadian humour. This award has attained an international reputation. April: Shortlist and Winner announced. Official website of the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour award. Winners Click on a link to check location and availability at GVPL. Secrets from the Vinyl Cafe , Stuart McLean Pitch Black , Arthur Black Beauty Tips from Moose Jaw , Will Ferguson Village of the Small Houses , Ian Ferguson With Axe and Flask - A History of Persephone Township , Dan Needles Generica , Will Ferguson Vinyl Cafe Unplugged , Stuart McLean Black Tie and Tales , Arthur Black Home From the Vinyl Cafe , Stuart McLean Barney's Version , Mordecai Richler Black in the Saddle Again , Arthur Black Letters from the Country , Marsha Boulton Fear of Frying and Other Fax of Life , Josh Freed , Bill Richardson Waiting for Aquarius , John Levesque Prayers of a Very Wise Child , Roch Carrier Writing In The Rain , Howard White According to Jake and the Kid , W. O. Mitchell

8. Writing In Canada: Authors: Stephen Leacock stephen leacock resources online, including bibliographical material and annotated links. http://www.track0.com/ogwc/authors/leacock_s.html

home authors publications publishers ... about us Stephen Leacock works by Elements of Political Science Baldwin, Lafointaine, Hincks: Responsible Government Literary Lapses Nonsense Novels Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town Beyind the Beyond and Other Contributions to Human Knowledge , illus. by A.H. Fish (1913) Adventures of the Far North: A Chronicle of the Frozen Seas Arcadian Adventure with the Idle Rich Moonbeams from the Larger Lunacy "Q": A Farce In One Act Further Foolishness: Sketches and Satires on the Follies of the Day Essays and Literary Studies Frenzied Fiction The Hohenzollers in America; with the Bolsheviks in Berlin and Other Imposibilities The Unsolved Riddle Of Social Justice Winsome Winnie and Other Nonsense Novels My Discovery of England College Days Over the Footlights Over the Footlights The Garden Of Folly Winnowed Wisdom; a New Book of Humour Short Circuits Short Circuits Economic Properity and the British Empire Laugh with Leacock; an Anthology of the Best Works of Stephen Leacock Wet Wit and Dry Humour, Distilled From the Pages of Stephen Leacock Mark Twain The Dry Pickwick and Other Incongruities Afternoons in Utopia: Tales of the New Time Charles Dickens, His Life and Work

9. Stephen Leacock - Simple English Wikiquote Stephen Butler Leacock, Ph.D , FRSC (30 December 1869 – 28 March 1944) was a Canadian writer and economist. Advertising may be described as the science of http://simple.wikiquote.org/wiki/Stephen_Leacock

Stephen Leacock From Wikiquote Jump to: navigation search Stephen Butler Leacock, Ph.D FRSC (30 December 1869 – 28 March 1944) was a Canadian writer and economist Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it. Simple: (Advertising is the things companies say, and the pictures they show, to try to sell things. Arresting means making someone stop what they're doing and pay attention. Arresting can also mean the police catching someone: that's why this quote is funny.) We can say that advertising is the science of arresting the human mind for just enough time to get money from it. Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time. Laurence J. Peter. Bantam Books, New York NY, USA. 1977/1979. Retrieved from " http://simple.wikiquote.org/wiki/Stephen_Leacock Views Page Talk Change this page History Personal tools Log in / create account Navigation Main Page Simple talk Community portal New changes ... Donate Search Toolbox What links here Related changes Upload file Special pages ... Permanent link This page was last modified 16:31, 22 January 2008. Content is available under GNU Free Documentation License About Wikiquote

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11. Stephen Leacock - Biography And Works stephen leacock. Biography of stephen leacock and a searchable collection of works. http://www.online-literature.com/stephen-leacock/

The Literature Network Authors: 260 Books: 2,260 Forum Members: 41,657 Forum Posts: 465,479 Subscribe Teacher Accounts with student management and more. Home Authors Shakespeare Bible ... Stephen Leacock Stephen Leacock Search all of Stephen Leacock Advanced Search Stephen Butler Leacock (1869-1944), Canadian author, will long be remembered for his best-selling book Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town, (1912) as well as the numerous awards and honours he received during his illustrious lifetime as author, professor, lecturer and humourist. Stephen Butler Leacock was born on 30 December, 1869, at Swanmore, Hampshire, England, the third of eleven children to Peter Leacock and Agnes Emma (née Butler). The Leacock family did a lot of travelling in their early years but finally emigrated to Canada in 1876 and settled near the village of Sutton, Ontario on a one-hundred acre farm. It was a difficult time, with harsh winters and hard work. It was only two years later that Stephen's father Peter travelled to Manitoba, leaving his large family behind. Leacock enrolled at the University of Toronto in 1887, studying modern and classical languages and literature with such exceptional talent and focus that he finished two years' worth of courses in just one. He graduated from University College in 1891with a Bachelor of Arts degree. The 1890s heralded his early success as a humourist with articles published in various magazines such as the New York periodicals Truth and Life and Toronto's

12. Stephen Leacock Literary Works stephen leacock. Titles in Fiction category. Arcadian Adventures With the Idle Rich Introduction of Mr. stephen leacock Given by Sir Owen Seaman http://www.classicreader.com/author.php/aut.192/

Fiction Non-Fiction Young Readers Poetry ... Members :: Tools Printer-friendly Stephen Leacock Titles in Fiction category: Arcadian Adventures With the Idle Rich The Mausoleum Club stands on the quietest corner of the best residential street in the City. It is a Grecian building of white stone. About it are great elm trees with birdsthe most expensive kind of birdssinging in the branches. Hohenzollerns in America, The The proper punishment for the Hohenzollerns, and the Hapsburgs, and the Mecklenburgs, and the Muckendorfs, and all such puppets and princelings, is that they should be made to work; and not made to work in the glittering and glorious sense, as generals and chiefs of staff, and legislator ... Moonbeams From the Larger Lunacy Readers are requested to note that this novel has taken our special prize of a cheque for a thousand guineas. This alone guarantees for all intelligent readers a palpitating interest in every line of it. Among the thousands of MSS. which reached usmany of them coming in carts early in the mor ... Nonsense Novels The author of this book offers it to the public without apology. The reviewers of his previous work of this character have presumed, on inductive grounds, that he must be a young man from the most westerly part of the Western States, to whom many things might be pardoned as due to the e ...

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Quotation Search by keyword or author: Home Weblog Quotes of the Day Motivational ... Read books online at our other site: The Literature Page Quotations by Author Stephen Leacock (1869 - 1944) [more author details] Showing quotations 1 to 4 of 4 total Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it. Stephen Leacock - More quotations on: [ Advertising I detest life-insurance agents; they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so. Stephen Leacock Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits. Stephen Leacock - More quotations on: [ Journalism Lord Ronald said nothing; he flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions. Stephen Leacock "Nonsense Novels",1911 6 Quotations in other collections Search for Stephen Leacock at Amazon.com Showing quotations 1 to 4 of 4 total Previous Author: Reggie Leach Next Author: Frank Leahy Return to Author List Browse our complete list of 3141 authors by last name: A B C D ... Z (c) 1994-2007 QuotationsPage.com and

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Athabasca University. Canada's Open University. Navigation Skip Navigation Language and Literature Contact Faculty ... English Language Studies Stephen Leacock (1869-1944) Born in Swanmore, England in 1869 Stephen Leacock is one of Canada's great writers of humorous fiction. After many failed attempts at farming in England, South Africa and the United States, his father took the family to the Lake Simcoe area of Ontario. Leacock's father eventually abandoned the family, leaving his mother in charge of eleven children. Leacock was educated locally, and then at Upper Canada College. He went on to the University of Toronto, and then to the University of Chicago where he studied political economy. In 1903 he took a position as lecturer at McGill University, where he eventually became head of the Department of Economics and Political Science. Leacock wrote much non-fiction, but he is best known for his humorous fiction. His first collection of humorous stories appeared in 1910, Literary Lapses . They were musings, parodies, satires, funny anecdotes and conversations. Since they were collected from various sources, the stories shared very little in common other than Leacock's sharp sense of humor. His two most important books of humor are

16. Stephen Leacock Building and pictures of the building, located on the campus of McGill University....... http://cac.mcgill.ca/campus/buildings/Stephen_Leacock.html

Stephen Leacock Building Virtual McGill Stephen Leacock Building McGill Archives The Stephen Leacock Building was named after Stephen Leacock, a Professor of Economics from 1901 to 1944 and a well-known Canadian humorist and author. The edifice was built in 1965 by ARCOP, a firm contributed to by Affleck, Desbarats, Dimokopoulos, Lebensold, and Sise who were also responsible for the University Centre . At this time there were many building projects in progress all over the campus because of the dramatic climb in the enrolment of the University. Many of the faculties and departments had expanded beyond their spaces and needed room to grow, including the Faculty of Arts which had outgrown its ancestral home, the Arts Building. The area chosen for the new building had been, until then, the site of the McGill Observatory and of half of the Presbyterian College , whose remaining half is currently called Morrice Hall. The Leacock Building was originally planned as two towers, the second, which was found to be unnecessary and was never built, would have taken over the site of the remaining half of Morrice Hall, a charming Collegiate Gothic style structure. Leacock is a ten-storey concrete structure that houses, on its lower three floors, twenty-four lecture rooms ranging in capacity from 30 seats to 200, not including the massive lecture room on the first floor which seats 650 students at a time. This large auditorium has no windows in it, to provide fewer distractions, and is half underground with the seats sloping in the same direction as the natural hillside. Since all of the lecture rooms are on the lower floors, they are easily accessible to students and keep the traffic to a minimum in the upper tower which is reserved for 125 offices served by elevators. The lower floors may be entered from the third floor terrace to the west, the second floor terrace to the south, the first floor street level, or from the Arts Building which is connected to Leacock from the east by a glass-walled corridor. Stairs, similar to those on the interior, connect the levels of the terrace.

17. LEACOCK MEDAL FOR HUMOUR Annual awards given to the author of the best book of humour written by a Canadian in the current year. Provides an overview of the award, rules, http://www.leacock.ca/

2007 STUDENT AWARD Andrew McCormick-Johnson , from Southwood Secondary School in Cambridge Ontario is our 2007 winner for his entry entitled Wartime Memoirs of an Anglo-Canadian Windbag. Our second place winner is Will Sloan , of Martingrove Collegiate Institute, in Etobicoke. His entry is called Celebro Replaceo Third place went to Whitney Fleming from West Hill Secondary School in Owen Sound for Dispelling the Myths. read more ... As the Leacock Association approaches our diamond anniversary – sixty years – there are many preparations being made. When Stephen Leacock’s peers set up this annual award in 1947, how many of them would have dreamed that Leacock would be just as popular in 2007 as he was in those post-war years? In fact, Leacock’s work remains as relevant and timely today as it was in the author’s prime. That speaks volumes about the man’s style of humour, his humanity and his focus on the conditions faced by “everyman.” SHORT LIST 2007 Secrets From the Vinyl Cafe Stuart McLean JPod Douglas Coupland Cockeyed Ryan Knighton Tuckahoe Slidebottle Neil McKinnon The Passionate Gardener Des Kennedy Morley Torgov presented the Order of Mariposa ... a toast to his long standing as a special part of the Stephen Leacock Award for Humor festivities.

18. Stephen Leacock Biographies. Faces of leacock (1967) by Donald Cameron,; stephen leacock (1970) by Robertson Davies; stephen leacock A Reappraisal (1987) by D. Staines http://particle.physics.ucdavis.edu/bios/Leacock.html

Stephen Butler Leacock (1869-1944) writer and economist born in Swanmore, England, and taken to Canada at age six family settled on a farm a few miles south of Lake Simcoe, near the town of Sutton , Ontario his father soon abandoned the family his mother managed to send him to school at Upper Canada College won a scholarship to the University of Toronto taught at Upper Canada College (1889-1899) went to graduate school at the University of Chicago taught at McGill University (1908-1936) where he was head of the Department of Economics and Political Science wrote more than sixty books including works on political science and economics and biographies of Mark Twain (1932) and Charles Dickens (1933) best known for his essays, parodies, and short stories humourous works include: Literary Lapses Nonsense Novels Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich Moonbeams from the Larger Lunacy My Remarkable Uncle Biographies: Faces of Leacock (1967) by Donald Cameron, Stephen Leacock (1970) by Robertson Davies Stephen Leacock: A Reappraisal (1987) by D. Staines

19. The Hohenzollerns In America By Stephen Leacock - Project Gutenberg Download the free eBook The Hohenzollerns in America by stephen leacock. http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/4781

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TABLE OF CONTENTS Stephen Leacock - Life Stories, Books, and Links Biographical Information Stories about Stephen Leacock Selected works by this author Selected books about / related to this author ... Recommended links BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION Stephen Leacock (1869 - 1944) Category: English, Canadian Literature Born: December 30, 1869 Swanmoor, Hampshire, England Died: March 28, 1944 Toronto, Ontario, Canada Related authors: Mark Twain list all writers Stephen Leacock - LIFE STORIES Classic, Kindly Leacock On this day in 1869 the Canadian humorist Stephen Leacock was born. Twenty-five of Leacock's forty-odd books are in his comic mode, Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town and Arcadian Adventures of the Idle Rich being most well-known, but all exemplifying his belief that "the humour of the highest culture, the humour of the future," is born of "kindliness" and "wide charity of mind." top of page SELECTED WORKS BY THIS AUTHOR Arcadian Adventures of the Idle Rich non-fiction Hellements of Hickonomics non-fiction Leacock on Life by Stephen Leacock, Gerald Lynch (Editor)

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