num_pages: 188
description: A gift? Yes-a gift for you. You're welcome.— from the introduction by Daniel HandlerNonsense 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 cliché 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.
language: English
title: Nonsense Novels
titlecomplete: Nonsense Novels
genres: 20th Century, Canada, Short Stories, Short Story Collection, Historical Fiction, Comedy, Classics, Fiction, Humor
ratings_count: 433
publisher: NYRB Classics