Nonsense Novels

Complete and unabridged, with 48 full-page plates by George Cruikshank, James 'Clock' Shaw and Honoré Daumier. Ten parodies of the fiction of 1911: a detective story, a nautical tale, a Russian novel, a ghost story and a romance, each carried to the point where its machinery falls off. Leacock was a professor of political economy at McGill and wrote humour in the mornings before lectures. "Gertrud...