Moonbeams from the Larger Lunacy

Dividing his time between academic pursuits and humor writing, Canadian author and scholar Stephen Leacock had a vivid, kinetic imagination. His playful mental prowess is on full display in the collection Moonbeams from the Larger Lunacy, which veers between wide arrays of topics, ranging from suffrage to literary satires of overwrought purple prose with humorous, ironic, and sometimes cynical observations of life in 1915.