Ten silly stories by Canadian humourist Stephen Leacock. Nonsense Novels by Stephen Leacock is a classic collection of hilarious literary satires which jaunts from genre to genre, gleeful mysteries, ghost stories, detective novels, and almost every other type ... "Maddened By Mystery or The Defective Detective," "Guido, the Gimlet of Ghent: A Romance of Chivalry," "Soaked in Seaweed or Upset in the Ocean," "Carolina's Christmas or The Inexplicable Infant" and "The Man In Asbestos: An Allegory of the Future" are a few of the wacky, wierd and often funny tales found in this collection.