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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.Leacock, Stephen is the author of 'Nonsense Novels', published 2004 under ISBN 9781590171189 and ISBN 1590171187.
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