Further Foolishness: Sketches And Satires On The Follies Of The Day
By:Stephen Leacock Published By:Double9 Books
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Further foolishness: Sketches and satires on the follies of the day offers a playful yet incisive examination of social habits, cultural pretensions, and everyday absurdities. The collection uses humor as a lens to expose the contradictions and excesses of modern life, turning familiar situations into exaggerated reflections of human weakness. Social institutions, popular media, intellectual fashions, and public behavior are gently mocked, revealing how seriousness often disguises foolishness. The sketches rely on irony, exaggeration, and sharp observation rather than cruelty, allowing comedy to emerge from recognition rather than ridicule. Beneath the light tone lies thoughtful commentary on conformity, vanity, and misplaced authority. The work highlights how routine thinking and unquestioned traditions can produce comic results, especially during periods of social tension and change. Wit is balanced with restraint, ensuring that humor remains accessible and reflective rather than cynical. Overall, the collection presents laughter as a form of insight, suggesting that awareness of folly can encourage humility, perspective, and clearer understanding of human behavior.
Stephen Leacock was a Canadian educator, political scientist, author, and comedian. Between 1915 and 1925, he was the most well-known English-speaking comic in the world. He is well-known for his light humour and condemnation of other people's folly. Stephen Leacock was born on December 30, 1869, in Swanmore, a village near Southampton, southern England. He was the third of eleven children born to (Walter) Peter Leacock, who was born and raised at Oak Hill on the Isle of Wight, an estate purchased by his grandfather after returning from Madeira, where his family had made a fortune from plantations and Leacock's Madeira wine, founded in 1760. Agnes, Stephen's mother, was born in Soberton, the youngest daughter of the Rev. Stephen Butler and his second wife (Caroline Linton Palmer) of Bury Lodge, the Butler estate that overlooked the village of Hambledon in Hampshire. Leacock was named after Stephen Butler, the maternal grandchild of Admiral James Richard Dacres and brother of Sir Thomas Dacres Butler, Usher of the Black Rod.
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