New Canadian Library. Good with No dust jacket as issued. 1989. Mass Market Paperback. 0771099665 . A Good Read ships from Toronto and Niagara Falls, NY - customers outside of North America please allow two to three weeks for delivery. Aging to text block. Name of PO inscribed in ink. ; New Canadian Library; 7.0 X 4.3 X 0.5 inches; 216 pages .

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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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Bookseller: A Good Read (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 183740
Title: Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich
Author: Leacock, Stephen
Format/Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Book Condition: Used - Good with No dust jacket as issued
Binding: Paperback
ISBN 10: 0771099665
ISBN 13: 9780771099663
Publisher: New Canadian Library
Place of Publication: Westminster, Maryland, U.s.a.
Date Published: 1989
Keywords: 0771099665

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