Stephen Leacock - Gertrud a nevelőnő

"A real, unadulterated sailor-looking man stood in front of me, between the thirties and sixties, with a smiling, freshly shaved face, the smoothness of which was varied only by two magnificent sideburns. In addition, a huge beard hung on his chin, back and hands, while his gray mustache curled on his shoulders took over and completed the picture ... Leaning against the sail of the crossmast I watched ... and wondered - should I say, my reader, that my good mother came to my mind. Anyone who had a mother will understand this ingrained habit of mine that always, whenever my fate puts me in a dangerous situation, I tend to rely on her for something, and I think of my mother." A very "classic" and very familiar way of thinking, isn't it? Anyway, the voice belongs to Karinthy...

Stephen Butler Leacock, a Canadian economist of English origin, headed the Faculty of Economics at McGill University in Montreal for decades at the beginning of the last century. In addition to his academic publications, he has published numerous historical and literary works, but he owes his international fame to his literary parodies. Hungarian readers are also mostly familiar with the self of the humorist thanks to Karinthy Frigyes, who is very close to him in spirit, who published his Leacock translations, or rather his translations, in 1927. Our volume contains these writings