The Awful Fate of Melpomenus Jones is a short story by Stephen Leacock. It was re-published in Literary Lapses in 1910.[1] It is read by John Le Mesurier on a 1976 LP What Is Going To Become Of Us All?[2] It was made into a short film by Gerald Potterton in 1983.[3]
It tells the story of a young curate, Melpomenus Jones, who could not bear to say goodbye. He visits some friends and becomes trapped. After a couple of weeks he falls into "raging delirium of fever". After a month, the angels decided his stay was over, and he died.
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Wikisource has The Awful Fate of Melpomenus Jones:
- ^ Page on Leacock at online-literature
- ^ What Is Going To Become Of Us All? at discogs.com
- ^ Potterton, Gerald, The Awful Fate of Melpomenus Jones (Animation, Short), Mavor Moore, National Film Board of Canada (NFB), retrieved 2024-10-15
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