Humorous, ironic, and sometimes cynical observations of life in 1915 from Canadian humourist Stephen Leacock. (Summary by TriciaG)
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Chapters
- Chapter 1
00 - Preface
01:25 - Chapter 2
01 - Spoof: A Thousand-Guinea Novel
25:48 - Chapter 3
02 - The Reading Public
16:08 - Chapter 4
03 - Afternoon Adventures at My Club, Part 1
27:01 - Chapter 5
04 - Afternoon Adventures at My Club, Part 2
31:08 - Chapter 6
05 - Afternoon Adventures at My Club, Part 3
21:21 - Chapter 7
06 - Ram Spudd The New World Singer
09:36 - Chapter 8
07 - Aristocratic Anecdotes, or Little Stories of Great People
07:00 - Chapter 9
08 - Education Made Agreeable, or the Diversions of a Professor
11:07 - Chapter 10
09 - An Every-Day Experience
02:33 - Chapter 11
10 - Truthful Oratory, or What Our Speakers Ought to Say
06:45 - Chapter 12
11 - Our Literary Bureau
11:47 - Chapter 13
12 - Speeding Up Business
13:07 - Chapter 14
13 - Who Is Also Who. A Companion Volume to Who's Who
06:36 - Chapter 15
14 - Passionate Paragraphs
02:06 - Chapter 16
15 - Weejee the Pet Dog. An Idyll of the Summer
05:48 - Chapter 17
16 - Sidelights on the Supermen. An Interview with General Bernhardi
13:17 - Chapter 18
17 - The Survival of the Fittest
07:50 - Chapter 19
18 - The First Newspaper. A Sort of Allegory
21:39 - Chapter 20
19 - In the Good Time After the War
06:07