Extraordinary Canadians Stephen Leacock
Author | : Margaret MacMillan |
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Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2009 |
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ISBN | : 9781322671413 |
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Author | : Margaret MacMillan |
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Release | : 2009 |
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ISBN | : 9781322671413 |
Author | : Margaret MacMillan |
Publisher | : Penguin Canada |
Total Pages | : 117 |
Release | : 2009-03-31 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0143175211 |
Stephen Leacock's satiric masterpiece Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town captures "the Empire forever" mentality that marked Anglo-Canadian life in the early decades of the twentieth century. Historian Margaret Macmillan—whose books Women of the Raj and Paris 1919 cast fresh light on the colonial legacy—has great affection for Leacock's gentle wit and sharp-eyed insight. The renowned historian examines Leacock's life as a poor but ambitious student who rose to become an economist, celebrated academic, and, most importantly, the beloved humorist who taught Canadians to laugh at themselves.
Author | : Rudy Wiebe |
Publisher | : Penguin Canada |
Total Pages | : 113 |
Release | : 2008-12-02 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0143172700 |
Big Bear (1825–1888) was a Plains Cree chief in Saskatchewan at a time when aboriginals were confronted with the disappearance of the buffalo and waves of European settlers that seemed destined to destroy the Indian way of life. In 1876 he refused to sign Treaty No. 6, until 1882, when his people were starving. Big Bear advocated negotiation over violence, but when the federal government refused to negotiate with aboriginal leaders, some of his followers killed 9 people at Frog Lake in 1885. Big Bear himself was arrested and imprisoned. Rudy Wiebe, author of a Governor General’s Award–winning novel about Big Bear, revisits the life of the eloquent statesman, one of Canada’s most important aboriginal leaders.
Author | : John Ralston Saul |
Publisher | : Penguin Canada |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 2010-10-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0143178741 |
Canada has no better interpreter than prolific writer and thinker John Ralston Saul. Here he argues that Canada did not begin in 1867; indeed, its foundation was laid by two visionary men, Louis-Hippolyte LaFontaine and Robert Baldwin. The two leaders of Lower and Upper Canada, respectively, worked together after the 1841 Union to lead a reformist movement for responsible government run by elected citizens instead of a colonial governor. But it was during the "Great Ministry" of 1848—51 that the two politicians implemented laws that created a more equitable country. They revamped judicial institutions, created a public education system, made bilingualism official, designed a network of public roads, began a public postal system, and reformed municipal governance. Faced with opposition, and even violence, the two men— polar opposites in temperament—united behind a set of principles and programs that formed modern Canada. Writing with verve and deep conviction, Saul restores these two extraordinary Canadians to rightful prominence.
Author | : A. F. Moritz |
Publisher | : Markham, Ont. : Fitzhenry & Whiteside |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2006-07 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781550415032 |
The reputation of Stephen Leacock as Canada's best-loved humorist started with the publication of his Literary Lapses in 1910. Reviewers raved about the book, and by the time his Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town appeared in 1912, Leacock was being hailed as the Canadian Mark Twain and compared to Charlie Chaplin. Despite Leacock's early hardships, what is certain is that the story of this Canadian immigrant is remarkable. A boy who loved to read went on to write more than 60 books. A boy who loved to laugh went on to world celebrity for his gift for making other people laugh. A boy who came to Canada pining for his birthplace went on to choose Canada as his place in the world.
Author | : Stephen Leacock |
Publisher | : New Canadian Library |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0771093977 |
Affectionately combining both the idyllic and ironic, Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town is Stephen Leacock’s 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 skilful brushstrokes of a great comic artist, the delightful inhabitants of Mariposa represent the people of small towns everywhere. 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 – colourful, imaginative, and thoroughly entertaining.
Author | : Stephen Leacock |
Publisher | : New Canadian Library |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2010-08-03 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0771094140 |
This celebrated collection of sketches sparkles with Stephen Leacock’s humour and shines with the warmth of his wit. The comical E.P., star of the title essay, “My Remarkable Uncle,” is a classic Leacock character. He is president of a railway with a letterhead but no rails, and he heads a bank that boasts credit but no cash whatsoever – all of which trouble E.P. not in the least. My Remarkable Uncle, a wonderful smorgasbord of mirth served up by a master of comedy, includes several essays, a short story, a political parable, and personal reflections on a dizzying array of subjects. Here, in rich abundance, are the inspired nonsense and the unerring eye for human folly that have made Stephen Leacock Canada’s most celebrated humorist.
Author | : Stephen Leacock |
Publisher | : National Geographic Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2010-10-19 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0771094000 |
This original NCL collection brings together Leacock’s comic masterpieces, the many varieties of his remarkable humour. In one story a young man is seized by fear as he attempts to open his first bank account. In another, Lord Ronald, the beloved of Gertrude the Governess, “flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.” In a third, the Mariposa Belle sinks in the shallow waters of Lake Wissanotti. Completing these timeless comedies are two of Leacock’s own essays on humour.
Author | : Stephen Leacock |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 1914 |
Genre | : Humorous stories, Canadian |
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Author | : Alan Bowker |
Publisher | : Dundurn |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2004-11-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1554882524 |
In the last decade of his life, Leacock turned to writing informal essays that blended humour with a conversational style and ripened wisdom to address the issues he cared about most - education, literature, economics, Canada and its place in the world - and to confront the joys and sorrows of his own life. With an introduction that sets them in the context of his life, thoughts and times, these essays reveal a passionate, intellegent, personal Leacock, against a backdrop of Depression and war, finding hope and conveying the timeless message that only the human spirit can bring social justice, peace, and progress.