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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 ...
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] It takes a humorous look at a young ...
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 Stephen Leacock Associates, the non-profit organising body behind the award, was founded in 1946 by a loose group of Leacock’s friends and supporters. [1] Although administered and presented separately, in early years the award was announced as part of the Governor General's Awards announcements, [3] [4] [5] later moving to a separate announcement.
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 ...
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. Arcadian Adventures follows the members of the 'Mausoleum Club' on Plutoria ...
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English. Genre. Humour, Satire. Publication date. 1924. Publication place. Canada. 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.