Until a few years ago, I'd heard the name Dorothy Sayers but never quite knew what she wrote. Then I happened upon a Lord Peter Wimsey story in a mystery anthology and the character and story has stuck with me ever since. Keeping my eye out for the rest of the series, the 3 for… Continue reading Round-Up Review: Three Recent Classics Club Reads
Tag: Stephen Leacock
“rode madly off in all directions”
On this day, March 28, in 1944, Stephen Leacock, humorist and professor of Political Economics at McGill, died. One day last summer, I was possessed of the need to determine where the phrase “he rode off in all directions” originated. A quick Google search introduced me to Stephen Leacock, writer and economist of the last… Continue reading “rode madly off in all directions”

