
My Remarkable Uncle
Stephen Leacock(Author)
New Canadian Library (Publisher)
Published on 3. August 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
272 pages
978-0-7710-9414-9 (ISBN)
Description
This celebrated collection of sketches sparkles with Stephen Leacock's humour and shines with the warmth of his wit.
The comical E.P., star of the title essay, "My Remarkable Uncle," is a classic Leacock character. He is president of a railway with a letterhead but no rails, and he heads a bank that boasts credit but no cash whatsoever - all of which trouble E.P. not in the least.
My Remarkable Uncle, a wonderful smorgasbord of mirth served up by a master of comedy, includes several essays, a short story, a political parable, and personal reflections on a dizzying array of subjects.
Here, in rich abundance, are the inspired nonsense and the unerring eye for human folly that have made Stephen Leacock Canada's most celebrated humorist.
The comical E.P., star of the title essay, "My Remarkable Uncle," is a classic Leacock character. He is president of a railway with a letterhead but no rails, and he heads a bank that boasts credit but no cash whatsoever - all of which trouble E.P. not in the least.
My Remarkable Uncle, a wonderful smorgasbord of mirth served up by a master of comedy, includes several essays, a short story, a political parable, and personal reflections on a dizzying array of subjects.
Here, in rich abundance, are the inspired nonsense and the unerring eye for human folly that have made Stephen Leacock Canada's most celebrated humorist.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Toronto
Canada
Publishing group
McClelland & Stewart Inc.
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 197 mm
Width: 130 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
331 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7710-9414-9 (9780771094149)
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My Remarkable Uncle
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Stephen Leacock was a Canadian educator, political scientist, author, and comedian. Between 1915 and 1925, he was the most well-known English-speaking comic in the world. He is well-known for his light humour and condemnation of other people's folly. Stephen Leacock was born on December 30, 1869, in Swanmore, a village near Southampton, southern England. He was the third of eleven children born to (Walter) Peter Leacock, who was born and raised at Oak Hill on the Isle of Wight, an estate purchased by his grandfather after returning from Madeira, where his family had made a fortune from plantations and Leacock's Madeira wine, founded in 1760. Agnes, Stephen's mother, was born in Soberton, the youngest daughter of the Rev. Stephen Butler and his second wife (Caroline Linton Palmer) of Bury Lodge, the Butler estate that overlooked the village of Hambledon in Hampshire. Leacock was named after Stephen Butler, the maternal grandchild of Admiral James Richard Dacres and brother of Sir Thomas Dacres Butler, Usher of the Black Rod.
Content
SOME MEMORIES
My Remarkable Uncle
The Old Farm and the New Frame
The Struggle to Make Us Gentlemen
LITERARY STUDIES
The British Soldier
The Mathematics of the Lost Chord
The Passing of the Kitchen
Come Back to School
What’s in a Name?
Who Canonizes the Classics?
Among the Antiques
SPORTING SECTION
What Is a Sport?
Why Do We Fish?
When Fellers Go Fishing
Eating Air
STUDIES IN HUMOUR
The Saving Grace of Humour
Laughing Off Our History
War and Humour
MEMORIES OF CHRISTMAS
Christmas Rapture
Christmas Shopping
War- time Santa Claus
War- time Christmas
GOODWILL STUFF
Cricket for Americans
Our American Visitors
A Welcome to a Visiting American
Why Is the United States?
The Transit of Venus
Migration in English Literature
Three Score and Ten
Index: There Is No Index
L’Envoi: A Salutation Across the Sea
Afterword
My Remarkable Uncle
The Old Farm and the New Frame
The Struggle to Make Us Gentlemen
LITERARY STUDIES
The British Soldier
The Mathematics of the Lost Chord
The Passing of the Kitchen
Come Back to School
What’s in a Name?
Who Canonizes the Classics?
Among the Antiques
SPORTING SECTION
What Is a Sport?
Why Do We Fish?
When Fellers Go Fishing
Eating Air
STUDIES IN HUMOUR
The Saving Grace of Humour
Laughing Off Our History
War and Humour
MEMORIES OF CHRISTMAS
Christmas Rapture
Christmas Shopping
War- time Santa Claus
War- time Christmas
GOODWILL STUFF
Cricket for Americans
Our American Visitors
A Welcome to a Visiting American
Why Is the United States?
The Transit of Venus
Migration in English Literature
Three Score and Ten
Index: There Is No Index
L’Envoi: A Salutation Across the Sea
Afterword