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Stephen Leacock was a Canadian teacher, political scientist, writer, and humourist who died in 1944. He was born in England, moved to Canada, and became a professor at McGill University, where he was forcibly retired in 1936.
A classic Canadian humorous literature by Stephen Leacock, set in a fictional town inspired by Orillia, Ontario. Learn about the characters, stories, publication, adaptations and learning resources of this book.
My Financial Career is a 1962 Oscar-nominated animated short directed by Gerald Potterton and produced by Colin Low and Tom Daly for the National Film Board of Canada. The cartoon is based on a story of the same name from one of Stephen Leacock 's collections of short stories, Literary Lapses (1910). [1]
Leacock, Stephen. Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town. Ms. Library and Archives Canada still images and compendia. Leacock, Stephen. Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town. 1912. Bell and Cockburn, Toronto. Republished various times, among them ISBN 0-7710-9984-3, ISBN 1-896133-34-7, ISBN 1-55111-178-0 and ISBN 1-894003-20-9. Leacock, Stephen.
Learn about the annual Canadian literary award for the best book of humour written by a Canadian author. Find out the history, organization, medal design and list of winners and nominees since 1947.
Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich is a collection of humorous interwoven vignettes by Stephen Leacock, published in 1914. It exists as a companion work to his Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town (1912), due to the similarity of composition, and their subject matter.
"Taken piecemeal, Stephen Leacock's fun becomes the real humor of all sorts of things that we take with over-ponderous seriousness. "The Garden of Folly", under this acceptance, becomes a true garden through which we walk delighted and refreshed."
The Hohenzollerns in America: With the Bolsheviks in Berlin and Other Impossibilities is a sequence of stories by Stephen Leacock, first published in 1919. The title references the Hohenzollerns coming to America as simple immigrants and an imagined Bolshevik government taking power in Germany.