The Garden of Folly

The Garden of Folly is a work of satire, published by Stephen Leacock in 1924. The prosperity of the 1920s and Prohibition serve as targets.

Critical reception

"Taken piecemeal, Stephen Leacock's fun becomes the real humor of all sorts of things that we take with over-ponderous seriousness. "The Garden of Folly", under this acceptance, becomes a true garden through which we walk delighted and refreshed."

Quotations from the book were still cited as of 2017, used to illustrate the deceptive nature of advertising and the fake news cycle.