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Author | : Stephen Leacock |
Publisher | : New Canadian Library |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0771093977 |
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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 | : |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 1914 |
Genre | : Humorous stories, Canadian |
ISBN | : |
Download Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Stephen Leacock |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2002-01-01 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9780802035943 |
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Stephen Leacock's views on life provide a uniquely Canadian take on the world, an ironic perspective which continues to delight and instruct readers around the globe. An anthology of Leacock's wit and wisdom.
Author | : Stephen Leacock |
Publisher | : ReadHowYouWant.com |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 1927 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 1442924187 |
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Author | : Jamie Lamb |
Publisher | : Heritage House Publishing Co |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2019-10-01 |
Genre | : Humor |
ISBN | : 1772032859 |
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Longlisted for the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour A funny and heart-warming tribute to Canada’s most famous small town, and its most celebrated humourist, Stephen Leacock. Many Canadians grew up in small towns, or at least in neighbourhoods that acted like small towns. But what if you grew up in Canada’s most famous small town—Stephen Leacock’s Mariposa? This was the world that journalist Jamie Lamb was raised in, the actual place that inspired Leacock’s Canadian classic, Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town,over a century ago. The Mariposa of Lamb’s time was slightly different, yet it still embodied the heart and soul, the eccentricities and the bizarre local customs of Leacock’s sketches. Christmas in Mariposa is a celebration of that town and its people. It tells of secret gardens, special rinks, oddball hotels, remarkable foods, fast boats and sunken aircraft, Christmas Eve fireworks, and the best Christmas office party in the country. It describes a place where Christmas could be celebrated in summer with a Baby Jesus look-alike contest, Canada’s only officially sanctioned reindeer races, and the Three Wise Men arriving with gifts by parachute. It transports readers to a world where where Gordie Howe once dropped by for a skate, and Glenn Gould regularly came to eat a well-done steak and six Parker House rolls slathered in butter at a Chinese restaurant. Jamie Lamb’s Mariposa is timeless and quintessentially Canadian.
Author | : Stephen Leacock |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 1918 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
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My financial career.-- Lord Oxhead's secret.-- Boarding-house geometry.-- The awful fate of Melpomenus Jones.-- A Christmas letter.-- How to make a million dollars.-- How to live to be 200.-- How to avoid getting married.-- How to be a doctor.-- The new food.-- A new pathology.-- The poet answered.-- The force of statistics.-- Men who have shaved me.-- Getting the thread of it.-- Telling his faults.-- Winter pastimes.-- Number fifty-six.--Aristocratic education.-- The conjurer's revenge.-- Hints to travellers.-- A manual of education.-- Hoodoo McFiggin's Christmas.-- The life of John Smith.--On collecting things.-- Society chit-chat.-- Insurance up to-date.-- Borrowing a match.-- A lesson in fiction.-- Helping the Armenians.-- A study in still life, the country hotel.-- An experiment with Policeman Hogan.-- The passing of the poet.-- Self-made men.-- A model dialogue.-- Bach to the bush.--Reflections on riding.-- Saloonio.-- Half-hours with the poets: Mr. Wordsworth and the cottage girl; How Tennyson killed the May queen; Old Mr. Longfellow on board the Hesperus. --A, B, and C.
Author | : David Staines |
Publisher | : University of Ottawa Press |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0776601466 |
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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 | : Stephen Leacock |
Publisher | : Litres |
Total Pages | : 259 |
Release | : 2019-07-02 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 5041786119 |
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Author | : Louisa May Alcott |
Publisher | : ReadHowYouWant.com |
Total Pages | : 134 |
Release | : 2009-02-27 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 142701874X |
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First published in 1863, Hospital Sketches is a record of personal experiences of Louisa May Alcott. It is a vivid account of the American civil war, enlightening the women's participation in the conflict and their personal encounter with the brutalities....
Author | : Margaret Atwood |
Publisher | : Emblem Editions |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2009-03-31 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0771008678 |
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In these ten dazzling interrelated stories Atwood traces the course of a life and also the lives intertwined with it, while evoking the drama and the humour that colour common experiences—the birth of a baby, divorce and remarriage, old age and death. With settings ranging from Toronto, northern Quebec, and rural Ontario, the stories begin in the present, as a couple no longer young situate themselves in a larger world no longer safe. Then the narrative goes back in time to the forties and moves chronologically forward toward the present. In “The Art of Cooking and Serving,” the twelve-year-old narrator does her best to accommodate the arrival of a baby sister. After she boldly declares her independence, we follow the narrator into young adulthood and then through a complex relationship. In “The Entities,” the story of two women haunted by the past unfolds. The magnificent last two stories reveal the heartbreaking old age of parents but circle back again to childhood, to complete the cycle. By turns funny, lyrical, incisive, tragic, earthy, shocking, and deeply personal, Moral Disorder displays Atwood’s celebrated storytelling gifts and unmistakable style to their best advantage. This is vintage Atwood, writing at the height of her powers.