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Stephen Butler Leacock
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Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town (Forgotten Books) |
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English |
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Paperback |
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166 |
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2008-10-16 |
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1606801708 |
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Forgotten Books |
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0.6 pounds |
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6.0 x 8.9 x 0.7 inches |
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Product Description
Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town is a sequence of stories by Stephen Leacock, first published in 1912. It is generally considered to be one of the most enduring classics of Canadian humorous literature.
The fictional setting for these stories is Mariposa, a small town on the shore of Lake Wissanotti. Although drawn from his experiences in Orillia, Ontario, Leacock writes in the introduction:
"Mariposa is not a real town. On the contrary, it is about seventy or eighty of them. You may find them all the way from Lake Superior to the sea, with the same square streets and the same maple trees and the same churches and hotels."
This work has remained popular for its universal appeal. Many of the characters, though modelled on townspeople of Orillia, are small town archetypes. Their shortcomings and weaknesses are presented in a humorous but affectionate way. (Quote from wikipedia.org)
About the Author
Stephen Butler Leacock, Ph.D , FRSC (30 December 1869 - 28 March 1944) was a Canadian writer and economist.
Born in Swanmore, Hampshire, England, at age six Leacock and his family moved to Canada, settling on a farm in Egypt, Ontario, near the shores of Lake Simcoe. While the family had been comfortable in England, the farm in Georgina Township of York County was not a success and Leacock's family was quite poor. His father Peter suffered from alcoholism, becoming a violent alcoholic.
Leacock, always of obvious intelligence, was sent to the elite private school of Upper Canada College in Toronto, where he was top of the class and so popular he was chosen as head boy. His father left the house in 1887 and never returned. The same year, seventeen year-old Leacock started at University College at the Univers
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