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Literary Lapses

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A varied assortment of short comic sketches and essays that satirize social pretensions, bureaucratic absurdities, literary affectations, and everyday embarrassments. Contributions alternate between brief vignettes, extended lampoons, mock-instructional pieces, and parodies, each built around a single humorous premise. Recurring targets include class snobbery, travel annoyances, self-importance, and professional incompetence, all rendered through wry understatement, ironic observation, and exaggerated situations. The collection’s shifting forms and tones create a rapid succession of comic scenes that expose human foibles with lightness and a steady eye for the ridiculous.

LITERARY LAPSES

By Stephen Leacock





CONTENTS


My Financial Career

Lord Oxhead's Secret

Boarding-House Geometry

The Awful Fate of Melpomenus Jones

A Christmas Letter

How to Make a Million Dollars

How to Live to be 200

How to Avoid Getting Married

How to be a Doctor

The New Food

A New Pathology

The Poet Answered

The Force of Statistics

Men Who have Shaved Me

Getting the Thread of It

Telling His Faults

Winter Pastimes

Number Fifty-Six

Aristocratic Education

The Conjurer's Revenge

Hints to Travellers

A Manual of Education

Hoodoo McFiggin's Christmas

The Life of John Smith

On Collecting Things

Society Chit-Chat

Insurance up to Date

Borrowing a Match

A Lesson in Fiction

Helping the Armenians

A Study in Still Life.—The Country Hotel

An Experiment With Policeman Hogan

The Passing of the Poet

Self-made Men

A Model Dialogue

Back to the Bush

Reflections on Riding

Saloonio

Half-hours with the Poets--
I. MR. WORDSWORTH AND THE LITTLE COTTAGE GIRL
II. HOW TENNYSON KILLED THE MAY QUEEN
III. OLD MR. LONGFELLOW ON BOARD THE "HESPERUS"

A, B, and C