Stephen Leacock

Award-winning Canadian humorist and writer Stephen Leacock (1869-1944) was the author of more than 50 literary works, and between 1915 and 1925 was the most popular humorist in the English-speaking world. Leacock’s fictional works include classics like Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town, Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich, and Literary Lapses. In addition to his humor writings, Leacock was an accomplished political theorist, publishing such works as Elements of Political Science and My Discovery of the West: A Discussion of East and West in Canada, for which he won the Governor General's Award for writing in 1937. Leacock’s life continues to be commemorated through the awarding of the Leacock Medal for Humour and with an annual literary festival in his hometown of Orillia, Ontario.

Books by Stephen Leacock

Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town

My Financial Career

The Awful Fate Of Melpomenus Jones

My Discovery Of The West

Moonbeams From The Larger Lunacy

Frenzied Fiction

Further Foolishness

Literary Lapses

Arcadian Adventures With The Idle Rich

Adventurers Of The Far North

Charles Dickens

My Financial Career and Other Follies

My Remarkable Uncle

Penguin Black Classics Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town

The Penguin Book of Stephen Leacock 25th Anniversary Edition

Lessons from Leacock

Social Criticism