Stephen Leacock, Daniel Handler
Nonsense Novels
Hardcover
(NYRB Classics Nov. 30, 2004)
, First Printing edition
A gift? Yes-a gift for you. You're welcome.—from the introduction by Daniel HandlerNonsense 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 cliché 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.
- Series
- New York Review Books Classics
- ISBN
- 1590171187 / 9781590171189
- Pages
- 188
- Weight
- 9.6 oz.
- Dimensions
- 5.1 x 0.7 in.
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