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Literary Lapses

Stephen Leacock is one of Canada’s most celebrated humourists and was, for a period in the early 20th century, the most-widely read English language author the world over. His success comes in no small part due to Literary Lapses, his first collection of fiction. Penguin Random House Canada is proud to bring you classic works of literature in e-book form, with the highest quality production values. Find more today and rediscover books you never knew you loved.

“I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.”

Stephen Leacock Literary Lapses

Insurance up to Date
Literary Lapses (1910)

“It takes a good deal of physical courage to ride a horse. This, however, I have. I get it at about forty cents a flask, and take it as required.”

Stephen Leacock Literary Lapses

Reflections on Riding
Literary Lapses (1910)

“The rushing of his spirit from its prison-house was as rapid as a hunted cat passing over a garden fence.”

Stephen Leacock Literary Lapses

Literary Lapses (1910)

“You know, many a man realizes late in life that if when he was a boy he had known what he knows now, instead of being what he is he might be what he won't; but how few boys stop to think that if they knew what they don't know instead of being what they will be, they wouldn't be?”

Stephen Leacock Literary Lapses

How to Make a Million Dollars
Literary Lapses (1910)