The Penguin Stephen Leacock

Leacock,Stephen

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Although Stephen Leacock may well be remembered as a father of Canadian culture, he was a humorist of the school of Dickens and Mark Twain, exuding a universal quality that knew no borders. He taught the world, and perhaps more importantly Canada itself, that Canadians could laugh heartily and without reserve at themselves. 
This collection of his works—including several Sunshine Sketches and witticisms such as "How to Introduce Two People to One Another,""The Perfect Optimist,"and "How to Borrow Money"—demonstrates a warmth and wit that during his lifetime permeated his casual speech and possessed a timeless quality that lives on today.

The Penguin Book of Stephen Leacock 25th Anniversary Edition

Literature & Fiction

Short Stories & Anthologies

Penguin Canada

. no dustjacket, 1/4 leather bound, 1975 6th imp, clean bright copy

The Bodley Head Leacock

PRIESTLEY, J.B.

Vintage/Ebury (A Division of Random House Group)

Canada’s answer to Mark Twain and Charles Dickens, Stephen Leacock was a master of humor and characterization. His endearing portrayals of small-town life in Ontario and his memorable characters place him in the company of Canada’s finest writers. This Norton Critical Edition of Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town uses the text of the 1912 first edition, second impression, the only edition that takes into account the corrections made between impressions. It is accompanied by explanatory annotations and textual emendations. "Backgrounds and Contexts" includes a concise excerpt on Sunshine Sketches from the leading Leacock biography, as well as a selection of contemporary reviews from Canada, Britain, and the United States. "Criticism" is comprised of two sections. The first presents eight scholarly interpretations, by Desmond Pacey, Silver Donald Cameron, W. H. Magee, Ina Ferris, Beverly J. Rasporich, Frank Birbalsingh, Gerald Lynch, and Glenn Willmont, selected for their contribution to critical discussion of the novel. The second brings together responses to the novel by esteemed Canadian novelists Robertson Davies, Guy Vanderhaeghe, and Mordecai Richler. A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included.

Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town (Norton Critical Editions)

Reference

W.W.Norton&Company

Humorous essays look at banking, ghosts, laundry, golf, landlords, success, fishing, and daily life

Laugh With Leacock: An Anthology of the Best Works of Stephen Leacock.

Humor & Satire

Dodd, Mead

Teaching & Learning City Sch (PsychoSocial Studies in Education)

Basic Books

A gift? Yes-a gift for you. You're welcome.—from the introduction by Daniel HandlerNonsense Novels sends up the silliest conventions of the ghost story, the detective story, the rags-to-riches story, the adventure story, the shipwreck story, and, of course, the story itself. Among other things. Here the close cultivation of cliché yields a bumper crop of absurdity and the utterly ludicrous turns up at every new twist of the tale.This is a satirical masterpiece. Stephen Leacock was a genius.

Nonsense novels

Dover Publications

Further Foolishness: Sketches and Satires On the Follies of the Day

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Further Foolishness: Sketches And Satires On The Follies Of The Day

Kessinger Publishing, LLC

The Nonsense Novels and the Dawn of Canadian History

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