Nonsense Novels

Nonsense Novels is a collection of humorous parodies written by Stephen P. H. Butler Leacock, a Canadian teacher, political scientist, writer, and humourist.

THE author of this book offers it to the public without apology. The reviewers of his previous work of this character have presumed, on inductive grounds, that he must be a young man from the most westerly part of the Western States, to whom many things might be pardoned as due to the exuberant animal spirits of youth. They were good enough to express the thought that when the author grew up and became educated there might be hope for his intellect. The stories are

• Maddened by Mystery: or, The Defective Detective
• "Q." A Psychic Pstory of the Psupernatural
• Guido the Gimlet of Ghent: A Romance of Chivalry
• Gertrude the Governess: or, Simple Seventeen
• A Hero in Homespun: or, The Life Struggle of Hezekiah Hayloft
• Hannah of the Highlands: or, The Laird of Loch Aucherlocherty
• Soaked in Seaweed: or, Upset in the Ocean (An Old-fashioned Sea Story.)
• Caroline's Christmas: or, The Inexplicable Infant
• The Man in Asbestos: An Allegory of the Future