Frenzied Fiction

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Stephen Leacock. Frenzied Fiction

I. My Revelations as a Spy

II. Father Knickerbocker: A Fantasy

III. The Prophet in Our Midst

IV. Personal Adventures in the Spirit World

V. The Sorrows of a Summer Guest

VI. To Nature and Back Again

VII. The Cave-Man as He is

VIII. Ideal Interviews

I. WITH A EUROPEAN PRINCE

II. WITH OUR GREATEST ACTOR

III WITH OUR GREATEST SCIENTIST

IV. WITH OUR TYPICAL NOVELISTS

IX. The New Education

X. The Errors of Santa Claus

XI. Lost in New York

XII. This Strenuous Age

XIII. The Old, Old Story of How Five Men Went Fishing

XIV. Back from the Land

XV. The Perplexity Column as Done by the Jaded Journalist

XVI. Simple Stories of Success, or How to Succeed in Life

XVII. In Dry Toronto

XVIII. Merry Christmas

Отрывок из книги

It happened quite recently—I think it must have been on April the second of 1917—that I was making the long pilgrimage on a day-train from the remote place where I dwell to the city of New York. And as we drew near the city, and day darkened into night, I had fallen to reading from a quaint old copy of Washington Irving’s immortal sketches of Father Knickerbocker and of the little town where once he dwelt.

I had picked up the book I know not where. Very old it apparently was and made in England. For there was pasted across the fly-leaf of it an extract from some ancient magazine or journal of a century ago, giving what was evidently a description of the New York of that day.

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“Now,” he said, “let’s talk.”

“Tell me,” I said, “about the old days and the old times on Broadway.”

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