Stephen Leacock

Precedente humorístico de los territorios ficticios de la novela contemporánea, el pueblo de Mariposa es el centro del mundo, o al menos eso creen sus vecinos. Un lugar idílico, a la orilla de uno de los Grandes Lagos, en el que nada sucede que pase desapercibido, nada que pueda alterar el carácter recio y sin doblez de sus habitantes y romper la apacible bondad con que se relacionan. ¿Nada?

Ill.: A. H. Fish

El más grande humorista canadiense de todos los tiempos husmea en la vida de los ricachones. El relato del día a día en la zona residencial de una ciudad de segunda de Estados Unidos, a principios del siglo XX: un remanso de paz, aislado de la vulgaridad de los barrios bajos, en el que todos los lobos pasean vulgares y altivos, vulnerables y temibles bajo sus mejores pieles de cordero. Una vision que airea las verguenzas de los que se apoltronan en lo alto del escalafon social.

Stephen Leacock sees the comic of social situations. His writing exposes the incongruity between appearance and reality in human conduct, and his work is characterized by the invention of lively comic situations.Through this seven specially selected short stories you can meet and have fun with this author:- My Financial Career- Merry Christmas- How to Make a Million Dollars- How to Live to be 200- How to Avoid Getting Married- Aristocratic Education- Self-Made Men

Stephen Leacock is an unjustly neglected master of the short-story genre, once considered the best-known humorist in the world. Although he was a prolific writer, producing about fifty novels, biographies and histories, he was best known for his humorous articles and short stories in magazines.One of his later collections, Frenzied Fiction shows a master of a genre at the height of his game, and contains all the hallmarks of his earlier work and the trademark wit which he had refined over the previous decades. By turns laugh-aloud hilarious and poignant, and containing such gems as My Recollections as a Spy and Simple Stories of Success, or How to Succeed in Life, this collection builds a strong case against prohibition, paints a moving picture of a war-torn world, caricatures and lampoons novelists, actors and princes, and demonstrates why he met with such success and stacked a fan base with figures as varied as John Lane, A.P. Herbert and Groucho Marx.

Humorous, ironic, and sometimes cynical observations of life in 1915 from Canadian humourist Stephen Leacock.

A collection of wry looks at literature, education, and other social phenomena by Canadian humourist and economics professor, Stephen Leacock.

Eating is more than just feeding the body. The time for a meal is the time to unite the community around a table and share. The taste of food can evoke feelings and memories such as longing, joy and contemplation. Knowing this, writers have always used food as a subject in their works, to metaphorize feelings and thoughts.The critic August Nemo selected seven short stories by great authors who mixed literature and cuisine. Enjoy!- A Piece of Steak by Jack London- Gooseberries by Anton Chekhov- A Dinner by Alexander Kielland- The New Food by Stephen Leacock- White Bread by Zona Gale- Witches Loaves by O. Henry- Tea by SakiFor more books with interesting themes, be sure to check the other books in this collection!