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Stephen Leacock was born on 30 December 1869 in Swanmore, [3] [4] a village near Southampton in southern England. He was the third of the eleven children born to (Walter) Peter Leacock (b.1834), who was born and grew up at Oak Hill on the Isle of Wight, an estate that his grandfather had purchased after returning from Madeira where his family had made a fortune out of plantations and Leacock's ...
Arcadian Adventures follows the members of the 'Mausoleum Club' on Plutoria Avenue, in an unnamed American city (usually referred to as Plutoria, after its main street), and pokes fun at their obsessive individualism and materialism. [1] As Leacock thought humour to be 'the kindly contemplation of the incongruities of life and the artistic ...
The stories in the book were initially published as a sequence of short literary pieces serialized in the Montreal Daily Star from February 17 to June 22, 1912. Leacock reworked the series – by the means of additions, combinations, and divisions (but no deletions) – and assembled it as the book's manuscript.
Pages in category "Books by Stephen Leacock" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. ... This page was last edited on 1 October 2020, ...
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.
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]
The Awful Fate of Melpomenus Jones is a short story by Stephen Leacock. It was re-published in Literary Lapses in 1910. [1] It is read by John Le Mesurier on a 1976 LP What Is Going To Become Of Us All? [2] It was made into a short film by Gerald Potterton in 1983. [3] It tells the story of a young curate, Melpomenus Jones, who could not bear ...
[1] Many of his columns were collected in a variety of books, including The Garden of Needham and Needham's Inferno , which won the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour in 1967. Needham also coined Mop and Pail and Grope and Flail as unflattering nicknames for his employer, both of which are still in use today.