Sunshine Sketches Of A Little Town

Author:   Stephen Leacock ,  Wesley Bates
Publisher:   McClelland & Stewart Inc.
Edition:   100th Anniversary ed.
ISBN:  

9780771050060


Pages:   186
Publication Date:   05 July 2012
Format:   Hardback
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Affectionately combining both the idyllic and ironic, Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town is as fresh, funny and insightful today as when it was first published in 1912. 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 skilful brushstrokes of a great comic artist, the delightful inhabitants of Mariposa represent the people of small towns everywhere. This is Stephen Leacock at his best.

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Author:   Stephen Leacock ,  Wesley Bates
Publisher:   McClelland & Stewart Inc.
Imprint:   McClelland & Stewart Inc.
Edition:   100th Anniversary ed.
Dimensions:   Width: 21.50cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 26.00cm
Weight:   0.668kg
ISBN:  

9780771050060


ISBN 10:   0771050062
Pages:   186
Publication Date:   05 July 2012
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   No Longer Our Product
Availability:   Awaiting stock   Availability explained
The supplier is currently out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out for you.

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Praise for Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town 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 Praise for Seth: To read a book by Seth is to enter an oddly cozy, perfectly designed world where humor, nostalgia, and a gentle sadness pervade like the last autumnal rays of sunlight on a quiet afternoon. -- San Francisco Weekly


Praise for Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town 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 <br>Praise for Seth: To read a book by Seth is to enter an oddly cozy, perfectly designed world where humor, nostalgia, and a gentle sadness pervade like the last autumnal rays of sunlight on a quiet afternoon. -- San Francisco Weekly


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Stephen Leacock was born in Swanmore, Hampshire, England, in 1869. His family emigrated to Canada in 1876 and settled on a farm north of Toronto. Educated at Upper Canada College and the University of Toronto, Leacock pursued graduate studies in economics at the University of Chicago, where he studied under Thorstein Veblen. Even before he completed his doctorate, Leacock accepted a position as sessional lecturer in political science and economics at McGill University. When he received his Ph.D. in 1903, he was appointed to the position of lecturer. From 1908 until his retirement in 1936, he chaired the Department of Political Science and Economics. Leacock's most profitable book was his textbook, Elements of Political Science, which was translated into seventeen languages. The author of nineteen books and countless articles on economics, history, and political science, Leacock turned to the writing of humour as his beloved avocation. His first collection of comic stories, Literary Lapses, appeared in 1910, and from that time until his death he published a volume of humour almost every year. Leacock also wrote popular biographies of his two favourite writers, Mark Twain and Charles Dickens. At the time of his death, he left four completed chapters of what was to have been his autobiography. These were published posthumously under the title The Boy I Left Behind Me. Stephen Leacock died in Toronto, Ontario, in 1944.

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