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Twelve episodes in the everyday life of the community of Mariposa. "Leacock had a wonderful ear for dialogue and was superbly skilled in creating polished, self-contained scenes and in evoking character with a few sure strokes." -- Will Ferguson Affectionately combining both the idyllic and ironic, Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town is Stephen Leacocks most beloved book. Set in fictional Mariposa, an Ontario town on the shore of Lake Wissanotti, these sketches present a remarkable range of characters: some irritating, some exasperating, some foolhardy, but all endearing. Painted with the skillful brushstrokes of a great comic artist, the delightful inhabitants of Mariposa represent the people of small towns everywhere. Set in the fictional landscape of Mariposa on the shores of Lake Wissanotti in Missinaba County, Leacocks Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town is an affectionate satire of small town life. This series of humorous connected sketches about graft, high finance, religion, love and romance is, on one level, an intimate, comic portrait of town life and local politics. On another level, the narrative is a powerful commentary on the workings of community values and on Canadas place within the British Empire. As fresh, funny, and insightful today as when it was first published in 1912, Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town is Stephen Leacock at his best: colorful, imaginative, and thoroughly entertaining.
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(Forty wry, whimsical and witty essays)
Forty wry, whimsical and witty essays
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(Further Foolishness by Stephen Leacock is a classic. If y...)
Further Foolishness by Stephen Leacock is a classic. If you need of a laugh, this volume of humorous tales from Canadian writer Stephen Leacock should definitely do the trick. Any profits generated from the sale of this book will go towards the Freeriver Community project, a project designed to promote harmonious community living and well-being in the world. To learn more about the Freeriver project please visit the website - www.freerivercommunity.com
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Stephen Leacock was born in Swanmoor, a village near Southampton in southern England, United Kingdom on 30 December 1869. He was the third of the eleven children born to (Walter) Peter Leacock (b. 1834). Stephen's mother, Agnes, was born at Soberton, the youngest daughter by his second wife (Caroline Linton Palmer).
He was educated at Upper Canada College, where he later became a modern language master, and at the University of Toronto.
In 1903 he took his Ph. D. in economics and political science at the University of Chicago.
Leacock, Stephen Butler was a Canadian economist and humorist. He joined the staff of McGill University in 1901 and was chairman of the department of economics and political science from 1908 until his retirement in 1936.
He is best remembered, however, for his many volumes of humorous essays and stories, many of them genial satires, including Literary Lapses (1910), Nonsense Novels (1911), Behind the Beyond (1913), Frenzied Fiction (1918), Winnowed Wisdom (1926), My Discovery of the West (1937), and How to Write (1942).
Last Leaves (1945) are posthumously published essays and his autobiographical fragment, The Boy I Left behind Me (1946).
( Twelve episodes in the everyday life of the community o...)
(Further Foolishness by Stephen Leacock is a classic. If y...)
(Forty wry, whimsical and witty essays)
Both a teacher and a scholar, he was a member of the Royal Society of Canada, the American Political Association, and the Canadian Political Science Association, serving as president and founding member of the last.
