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My financial career and other follies / Stephen Leacock ; selected and with an afterword by David Staines.

Title
My financial career and other follies / Stephen Leacock ; selected and with an afterword by David Staines.
Author
Leacock, Stephen, 1869-1944
Publication
Toronto : McClelland & Stewart, c1993.

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Details

Description
203 p.; 18 cm.
Series Statement
New Canadian library
Uniform Title
New Canadian library
Subject
  • Canadian wit and humor (English)
  • Humour canadien-anglais
  • Short stories, Canadian
  • Canadian wit and humor
Genre/Form
Fiction
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
My financial career. -- The awful fate of Melpomenus Jones. -- Gertrude the governess: or, Simple seventeen. -- The marine excursion of the Knights of Pythias. -- The dentist and the gas. -- The love story of Mr. Peter Spillikins. -- The reading public: a book store study. -- The Snoopopaths or Fifty stories in one. -- My revelations as a spy. -- Personal adventures in the spirit world. -- War and peace at the Galaxy Club. -- Buggam Grange: a good old ghost story. -- How we kept Mother's Day. -- Old junk and new money. -- A lesson on the links. -- Fifty cents' worth. -- The perfect optimist or Day-dreams in a dental chair. -- Ho for happiness. -- My remarkable uncle. -- Good news! a new party! -- Humour as I see it. -- The saving grace of humour.
ISBN
0771098928
LCCN
cn^93093796^
OCLC
  • 28020611
  • SCSB-11429288
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library