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Author : Stephen Leacock
Publisher : London : J. Lane the Bodley Head
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
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Download or read book My Discovery of England written by Stephen Leacock and published by London : J. Lane the Bodley Head. This book was released on 1922 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stephen Leacock
Publisher : Good Press
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Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)
Download or read book My Discovery of England written by Stephen Leacock and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-04-25 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For some years past a rising tide of lecturers and literary men from England has washed upon the shores of our North American continent. The purpose of each one of them is to make a new discovery of America. They come over to us traveling in great simplicity, and they return in the ducal suite of the Aquitania. They carry away with them their impressions of America, and when they reach England they sell them. This export of impressions has now been going on so long that the balance of trade in impressions is all disturbed. There is no doubt that the Americans and Canadians have been too generous in this matter of giving away impressions. We emit them with the careless ease of a glow worm, and like the glow-worm ask for nothing in return.
Author : Stephen Leacock
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3387028490
Total Pages : 190 pages
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Download or read book My Discovery of England written by Stephen Leacock and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-09-03 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Author : Stephen Leacock
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Author : Stephen Leacock
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781724924179
Total Pages : 114 pages
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Download or read book My Discovery of England written by Stephen Leacock and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-08-07 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My Discovery of England: Large Print By Stephen Leacock The Balance of Trade in Impressions FOR some years past a rising tide of lecturers and literary men from England has washed upon the shores of our North American continent. The purpose of each one of them is to make a new discovery of America. They come over to us travelling in great simplicity, and they return in the ducal suite of the Aquitania. They carry away with them their impressions of America, and when they reach England they sell them. This export of impressions has now been going on so long that the balance of trade in impressions is all disturbed. There is no doubt that the Americans and Canadians have been too generous in this matter of giving away impressions. We emit them with the careless ease of a glow worm, and like the glow-worm ask for nothing in return. But this irregular and one-sided traffic has now assumed such great proportions that we are compelled to ask whether it is right to allow these people to carry away from us impressions of the very highest commercial value without giving us any pecuniary compensation whatever. British lecturers have been known to land in New York, pass the customs, drive uptown in a closed taxi, and then forward to England from the closed taxi itself ten dollars' worth of impressions of American national character. I have myself seen an English literary man, -the biggest, I believe: he had at least the appearance of it; sit in the corridor of a fashionable New York hotel and look gloomily into his hat, and then from his very hat produce an estimate of the genius of Amer ica at twenty cents a word. The nice question as to whose twenty cents that was never seems to have occurred to him. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.
Author : Stephen Leacock
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781535047852
Total Pages : 132 pages
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Download or read book My Discovery of England written by Stephen Leacock and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-07-02 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from the Introduction: Ladies and gentlemen, this is Mr. Stephen Leacock. Mr. Leacock, this is the flower of London intelligence-or perhaps I should say one of the flowers; the rest are coming to your other lectures. In ordinary social life one stops at an introduction and does not proceed to personal details. But behaviour on the platform, as on the stage, is seldom ordinary. I will therefore tell you a thing or two about Mr. Leacock. In the first place, by vocation he is a Professor of Political Economy, and he practises humour-frenzied fiction instead of frenzied finance-by way of recreation. There he differs a good deal from me, who have to study the products of humour for my living, and by way of recreation read Mr. Leacock on political economy. Further, Mr. Leacock is all-British, being English by birth and Canadian by residence, I mention this for two reasons: firstly, because England and the Empire are very proud to claim him for their own, and, secondly, because I do not wish his nationality to be confused with that of his neighbours on the other side. For English and American humourists have not always seen eye to eye. When we fail to appreciate their humour they say we are too dull and effete to understand it: and when they do not appreciate ours they say we haven't got any.
Author : Stephen Leacock
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Total Pages : 92 pages
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Download or read book My Discovery of England written by Stephen Leacock and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-10 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FOR some years past a rising tide of lecturers and literary men from England has washed upon the shores of our North American continent. The purpose of each one of them is to make a new discovery of America. They come over to us travelling in great simplicity, and they return in the ducal suite of the Aquitania. They carry away with them their impressions of America, and when they reach England they sell them. This export of impressions has now been going on so long that the balance of trade in impressions is all disturbed. There is no doubt that the Americans and Canadians have been too generous in this matter of giving away impressions. We emit them with the careless ease of a glow worm, and like the glow-worm ask for nothing in return. But this irregular and one-sided traffic has now assumed such great proportions that we are compelled to ask whether it is right to allow these people to carry away from us impressions of the very highest commercial value without giving us any pecuniary compensation whatever. British lecturers have been known to land in New York, pass the customs, drive uptown in a closed taxi, and then forward to England from the closed taxi itself ten dollars' worth of impressions of American national character. I have myself seen an English literary man, -the biggest, I believe: he had at least the appearance of it; sit in the corridor of a fashionable New York hotel and look gloomily into his hat, and then from his very hat produce an estimate of the genius of Amer ica at twenty cents a word. The nice question as to whose twenty cents that was never seems to have occurred to him.
Author : Stephen Leacock
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781508764786
Total Pages : 150 pages
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Download or read book My Discovery of England written by Stephen Leacock and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-03-06 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mystery had now reached its climax. First, the man had been undoubtedly murdered. Secondly, it was absolutely certain that no conceivable person had done it. It was therefore time to call in the great detective. He gave one searching glance at the corpse. In a moment he whipped out a microscope. "Ha! ha!" he said, as he picked a hair off the lapel of the dead man's coat. "The mystery is now solved." He held up the hair. "Listen," he said, "we have only to find the man who lost this hair and the criminal is in our hands." The inexorable chain of logic was complete. The detective set himself to the search. For four days and nights he moved, unobserved, through the streets of New York scanning closely every face he passed, looking for a man who had lost a hair. On the fifth day he discovered a man, disguised as a tourist, his head enveloped in a steamer cap that reached below his ears. The man was about to go on board the Gloritania.
Author : Stephen Leacock
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780265376232
Total Pages : 228 pages
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Download or read book My Discovery of England (Classic Reprint) written by Stephen Leacock and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-16 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from My Discovery of England Further, Mr. Leacock is all - British, being English by birth and Canadian by residence. I mention this for two reasons: firstly because England and the Empire are very proud to claim him for their own, and secondly because I do not wish his nation ality to be confused with that of his neighbours on the other side. For English and American humorists have not always seen eye to eye. When we fail to appreciate their humour they say we are too dull and ellete to understand it: and when they do not appreciate ours they say we haven't gotany. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
