With the kind permission of the publishers, we are posting Stephen Leacock’s collection “Extravagant Works,” prepared for publication, but not published.© V....

The name of the Canadian writer and economist Stephen Leacock (1869–1944) is firmly entrenched in the history of Canadian and world literature. Leacock gaine...

The collection includes humorous stories by the American Bret Harte and the Canadian Stephen Leacock - witty parodies of “The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes” ...