Sunshine Sketches Of A Little Town By Stephen Leacock

Author : Stephen Leacock
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781528353724
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town (Classic Reprint) written by Stephen Leacock and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-13 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town Many of my friends are under the impression that 'i write these humorous nothings in idle moments when the wearied brain is unable to perform the serious labours of the economist. My own experience is exactly the other way. The writing of solid, in structive stuff fortified by facts and figures is easy enough. There is no trouble in writing a scientific treatise on the folk-lore of Central China, or a statistical enquiry into the declining population of Prince Edward Island. But to write something out of one's own mind, worth reading for its own sake, is an arduous contrivance only to be achieved in fortunate moments, few and far between. Personally I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopaedia Britannica. In regard to the present work I must disclaim at once all intention of trying to do anything so ridiculously easy as writing about a real place and real people. 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, and everywhere the sunshine of the land of hope. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Stephen Butler Leacock
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich written by Stephen Butler Leacock and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-16 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich" 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.

Author : Stephen Leacock
Publisher : Litres
ISBN 13 : 5041786119
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town written by Stephen Leacock and published by Litres. This book was released on 2019-07-02 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jamie Lamb
Publisher : Heritage House Publishing Co
ISBN 13 : 1772032859
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Christmas in Mariposa written by Jamie Lamb and published by Heritage House Publishing Co. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1442924187
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nonsense Novels written by Stephen Leacock and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 1927 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Stephen Leacock
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802035943
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Leacock on Life written by Stephen Leacock and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Literary Lapses written by Stephen Leacock and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 0776601466
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stephen Leacock written by David Staines and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Prabhat Prakashan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town written by Stephen Leacock and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Stephen Leacock
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town written by Stephen Leacock and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: