Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich
de Leacock, Stephen
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- ISBN 10
- 0771099665
- ISBN 13
- 9780771099663
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Sinopsis
Stephen Leacock was born in Swanmore, Hampshire, England, in 1869. His family emigrated to Canada in 1876 and settled on a farm north of Toronto. Educated at Upper Canada College and the University of Toronto, Leacock pursued graduate studies in economics at the University of Chicago, where he studied under Thorstein Veblen. Even before he completed his doctorate, Leacock accepted a position as sessional lecturer in political science and economics at McGill University. When he received his Ph.D. in 1903, he was appointed to the position of lecturer. From 1908 until his retirement in 1936, he chaired the Department of Political Science and Economics. Leacock’s most profitable book was his textbook, Elements of Political Science , which was translated into seventeen languages. The author of nineteen books and countless articles on economics, history, and political science, Leacock turned to the writing of humour as his beloved avocation. His first collection of comic stories, Literary Lapses , appeared in 1910, and from that time until his death he published a volume of humour almost every year. Leacock also wrote popular biographies of his two favourite writers, Mark Twain and Charles Dickens. At the time of his death, he left four completed chapters of what was to have been his autobiography. These were published posthumously under the title The Boy I Left Behind Me . Stephen Leacock died in Toronto, Ontario, in 1944.
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- Librería
- A Good Read (US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 183740
- Título
- Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich
- Autor
- Leacock, Stephen
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Mass Market Paperback
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Good with No dust jacket as issued
- Encuadernación
- Tapa blanda
- ISBN 10
- 0771099665
- ISBN 13
- 9780771099663
- Editorial
- New Canadian Library
- Lugar de publicación
- Westminster, Maryland, U.s.a.
- Fecha de publicación
- 1989
- Palabras clave
- 0771099665
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