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Stephen Leacock was born on 30 December 1869 in Swanmore, [3] [4] a village near Southampton in southern England. He was the third of the eleven children born to (Walter) Peter Leacock (b.1834), who was born and grew up at Oak Hill on the Isle of Wight, an estate that his grandfather had purchased after returning from Madeira where his family had made a fortune out of plantations and Leacock's ...
The stories in the book were initially published as a sequence of short literary pieces serialized in the Montreal Daily Star from February 17 to June 22, 1912. Leacock reworked the series – by the means of additions, combinations, and divisions (but no deletions) – and assembled it as the book's manuscript.
As Leacock thought humour to be 'the kindly contemplation of the incongruities of life and the artistic expression thereof', [1] Acardian Adventures tends to steer slightly away from this form of 'kindliness', and, thus, ranks as one of his most scathing works, as well as arguably one of his funniest.
Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; Appearance. ... Pages in category "Books by Stephen Leacock" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 ...
Ernie Leacock (1906–1977), professional ice hockey defender; Hamble James Leacock (1795–1856), African missionary; Matt Leacock, Board game designer; Philip Leacock (1917–1990), English television and film director and producer; Richard Leacock (1921–2011), British-born documentary film director, pioneer of Direct Cinema and Cinéma ...
The Testament of Love is an allegorical prose work written in prison to seek aid. Walter Skeat found that the initial letters of the sections formed an acrostic saying, "MARGARET OF VIRTU HAVE MERCI ON TSKNVI." Properly decoded, the last word is "THINUSK," or "thin[e] Usk."
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"Taken piecemeal, Stephen Leacock's fun becomes the real humor of all sorts of things that we take with over-ponderous seriousness. "The Garden of Folly", under this acceptance, becomes a true garden through which we walk delighted and refreshed."