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Leacock, Stephen: The Letters of Stephen Leacock.(Brief article)(Book review)

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From: Biography
Date: 20060622
Author:MacMillan, Margaret

Leacock, Stephen The Letters of Stephen Leacock. Ed. David Staines with Barbara Nimno. Toronto: Oxford UP, 2006. 564 pp. $39.95.

"In his lifetime ... in a career which started before the First World War and lasted to his death in 1944, Leacock was one of the most famous writers in the English-speaking world. He wrote more than 60 books and hundreds of pamphlets and articles.... The Letters of Stephen Leacock, meticulously edited by David Staines, who has also provided very helpful comments and notes, show how thoroughly professional [Leacock] was about his writing, and how, ...

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