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Stephen P. H. Butler Leacock FRSC (30 December 1869 – 28 March 1944) was a Canadian teacher, political scientist, writer, and humourist. Between the years 1915 and 1925, he was the best-known English-speaking humourist in the world. [1] He is known for his light humour along with criticisms of people's follies. [2]
Canada. ISBN. 9781414244785. 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.
The Awful Fate of Melpomenus Jones is a very short story by Stephen Leacock. It was re-published in Literary Lapses in 1910. It is read by John Le Mesurier on a 1976 LP What Is Going To Become Of Us All? It was made into a short movie by Gerald Potterton in 1983. [citation needed]
The New Canadian Library is a publishing imprint of the Canadian company McClelland and Stewart. The series aims to present classic works of Canadian literature in paperback. [1] Each work published in the series includes a short essay by another notable Canadian writer, discussing the historical context and significance of the work.
According to John Cleese, the sketch was inspired by "Self-Made Men," a short story by Stephen Leacock published in 1910. [5] [6] The original performance of the sketch by the four creators is one of the surviving sketches from the programme and can be seen on the At Last the 1948 Show DVD as the closing sketch of series 2, episode 6. Its ...
Mariposa is a fictional Canadian town created by Stephen Leacock as the setting for a series of short stories. Commissioned by The Montreal Star newspaper, they were later collected and published in one volume as Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town. Since then, many attempts have been made to expand the canon, present it in a different form or ...
T. The Garden of Folly. Categories: Canadian books by writer. Books by writer.
The Garden of Folly. The Garden of Folly is a work of satire, published by Stephen Leacock in 1924. The prosperity of the 1920s and Prohibition serve as targets. [1] Quotations from the book are still cited as of 2017, used to illustrate the deceptive nature of advertising [2] and the fake news cycle. [3]