A gift? Yes-a gift for you. You're welcome.--"from the introduction by Daniel Handler"
"Nonsense Novels" sends up the silliest conventions of the ghost story, the detective story, the rags-to-riches story, the adventure story, the shipwreck story, and, of course, the story itself. Among other things. Here the close cultivation of cliche yields a bumper crop of absurdity and the utterly ludicrous turns up at every new twist of the tale.
This is a satirical masterpiece. Stephen Leacock was a genius.
- ISBN10 0649128672
- ISBN13 9780649128679
- Publish Date 17 May 2018 (first published 7 December 1911)
- Publish Status Active
- Imprint Trieste Publishing
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 240
- Language English