Author : Stephen Leacock
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 39,99 MB
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780802035943
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
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 26,50 MB
Release : 1927
Category :
ISBN : 1442924187
Author : Stephen Leacock
Publisher :
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 18,51 MB
Release : 1918
Category :
ISBN :
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 : Stephen Butler Leacock
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 40,35 MB
Release : 2021-08-31
Category : History
ISBN :
Begin a journey through the rich tapestry of Canada's history in 'Canada: The Foundations of Its Future' by Stephen Leacock. From the uncharted continent before human footsteps to the tumultuous era of World War II, Leacock weaves an informative and captivating narrative. Discover the early exploration and colonization, the clash of British and French influences, and the birth of British Canada. Witness the struggles and triumphs of a nation emerging from the Middle Period and struggling into life. As the twentieth century dawns, delve into the challenges and aspirations that shape Canada's identity.
Author : Daphne Mainprize
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 18,39 MB
Release : 2012-06-23
Category : History
ISBN : 1459707591
The year 2012 marks the 100th anniversary of the publication of Stephen Leacock's Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town. In words and pictures, author Daphne Mainprize takes the reader on a walking tour of Orillia, Ontario, the inspiration for Leacock's fabled Mariposa.
Author : Margaret MacMillan
Publisher : Penguin Books Canada
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 30,26 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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Canada's foremost historian examines the life of a great humorist. 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 : Stephen Leacock
Publisher : Boston : Houghton, Mifflin Company
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 34,56 MB
Release : 1906
Category : Political science
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Author : Stephen Leacock
Publisher : New Canadian Library
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 34,98 MB
Release : 2010
Category : 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 : David Staines
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 35,42 MB
Release : 1986
Category : 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 : Stephen Butler Leacock
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 99 pages
File Size : 49,95 MB
Release : 2022-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Boy I Left Behind Me" by Stephen Butler Leacock. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
