Stephen Leacock is an unjustly neglected master of the short-story genre, once considered the best-known humorist in the world. Although he was a prolific writer, producing about fifty novels, biographies and histories, he was best known for his humorous articles and short stories in magazines. One of his later collections, Frenzied Fiction shows a master of a genre at the height of his game, and contains all the hallmarks of his earlier work and the trademark wit which he had refined over the previous decades. By turns laugh-aloud hilarious and poignant, and containing such gems as 'My Recollections as a Spy' and 'Simple Stories of Success, or How to Succeed in Life', this collection builds a strong case against prohibition, paints a moving picture of a war-torn world, caricatures and lampoons novelists, actors and princes, and demonstrates why he met with such success and stacked a fan base with figures as varied John Lane, A.P. Herbert and Groucho Marx.

About the Author
Stephen Leacock (1869-1944) was a teacher, writer and one of the best-known humorists in the English-speaking world in the early twentieth century.

Reviews
'No one, anywhere in the world, can reduce a thing to ridicule with such few short strokes.' (Evening Standard) 'His wisdom is always humorous, and his humour is always wise.' (Sunday Times) 'Professor Leacock has made more people laugh with the written word than any other living author. One may say he is one of the greatest jesters, the greatest humorist of the age.' (A.P. Herbert)



Book Information
ISBN 9781913724085
Author Stephen Leacock
Format Paperback
Page Count 224
Imprint Renard Press Ltd
Publisher Renard Press Ltd