2 days ago · Stephen Leacock () is known for his literary masterpiece Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town. Photograph: Picture Post/Getty Images. · Project Gutenberg's Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town, by Stephen Leacock This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. This is a fun book in Penguin's 'must have in your home library' series of Canadian Classics. The 'Little Town' is Mariposa based on Orillia which is in the lake country north of Toronto. The town's characters include Mr. Smith, the hotel keeper, Jefferson Thorpe the barber, Reverend Drone the minister, Peter Pupkin a bank clerk, and others/5(11).
Stephen Leacock was, in , a famous Canadian writer. He was assistant professor of political science at McGill University at the time. In his book Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town was published. It was an idealized picture of a little Canadian town, modelled after the town he knew on Lake Simcoe, Orillia. Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town is a look at life in a small Canadian town in the turn of the century (19th and 20th). It is told in a series of vignettes highlighting different members of the community. While Leacock is telling the reader the story of Mariposa, it could be any small town. Stephen Leacock. Paperback. 1 offer from £ Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town: An Endearing and Hilarious Portrait of Real Small Town Life. Stephen Leacock. out of 5 stars. Paperback. 2 offers from £
In the case of Sunshine Sketches, Leacock’s target is a fictitious small town in southern Ontario, which could be, and often is, compared to all other small towns across the country. Leacock immerses the reader amidst a collection of ordinary characters who become extraordinary due to Leacock’s grasp of the comedy within human nature and the scope of small-town culture and tradition. Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town is a sequence of stories by Stephen Leacock, first published in 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. Sunshine Sketches is about Orillia, Ontario, Canada, where Leacock had his summer home. on Brewery Bay (he once wrote, "I have known that name, the old Brewery Bay, to make. people feel thirsty by correspondence as far away as Nevada.") His home is now maintained. as a historic site by the town of Orillia.
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