Stephen Leacock's Laugh Parade
Author | : Stephen Leacock |
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Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 1913 |
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Author | : Stephen Leacock |
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Total Pages | : 308 |
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Author | : Stephen Leacock |
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Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 1946 |
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Release | : 1944 |
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Author | : Stephen Leacock |
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Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 1944 |
Genre | : Canadian wit and humor |
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Author | : Stephen Leacock |
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Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 1940 |
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Author | : Stephen Leacock |
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Author | : David Staines |
Publisher | : University of Ottawa Press |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0776601466 |
This collection of essays explores the many dimensions of the writings of Stephen Leacock, the well-loved Canadian author of Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town. Published in English.
Author | : Gerhard Richard Lomer |
Publisher | : Folcroft Library Editions |
Total Pages | : 174 |
Release | : 1954 |
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Author | : Stephen Leacock |
Publisher | : McClelland & Stewart |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 2012-01-25 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1551993805 |
“Do you know the characteristic wine of Madeira?…I do not know whether Leacock ever drank Madeira himself – he was very much a Scotch-whisky man – but I enjoy Madeira greatly, and I never drink it without thinking of Leacock, who was sometimes dry, sometimes sweet, but who always leaves upon the tongue a hint of brimstone…” In his witty and illuminating introduction, which takes up the first third of the book, Robertson Davies invites us to join him in a Feast of Stephen. Davies’ selection of fifteen pieces from Leacock’s less familiar works presents the humorist as a true, broad, and sympathetic interpreter of Canadian life, as a man who may have lacked self-knowledge and sensitive insight into the feelings of others, but “whose best work was the outpouring of genius.” All shades of Leacock’s writing are represented here, from the “brilliant nonsense which made some critics liken him to Lewis Carroll,” to his occasional attacks of “aggressive Lowbrowism.” Together in all their diversity, Davies’ selections pay tribute to the gifts of exuberance, originality, and slightly malicious truth with which Leacock so entertainingly extends our vision.
Author | : Stephen Leacock |
Publisher | : Broadview Press |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 2002-08-12 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1551111780 |
Set in the fictional landscape of Mariposa on the shores of Lake Wissanotti in Missinaba County, Leacock’s Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town is an affectionate satire of small town life. This series of humourous 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 Canada’s place within the British Empire. The Broadview edition includes a critical introduction, thorough annotation, a list of textual variants, and a range of contextual materials, including Leacock’s stage adaptation of Sunshine Sketches.