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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 ...
It is believed that the book was translated and published by the Bolshevik government soon after the 1917 revolution, and it became a bestseller in the Soviet Union. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] While Leacock biographer Carl Spadoni has yet to find definitive evidence that a Russian edition exists, a communist-approved translation was printed in the German ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; ... Pages in category "Books by Stephen Leacock" The following 5 pages are in this category, out ...
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.
[7] [8] In 1936, the association founded Canadian Poetry, edited by E. J. Pratt. [ 9 ] The Canadian Authors Association discussed the idea of awards with Governor General Lord Tweedsmuir (1935-1940) who approved the use of the name of his office in the establishment of the Governor General's Awards in 1936, the first ones being awarded in 1937.
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]
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 today, the award was announced as part of the Governor General's Awards in its early years. [3] [4] [5]
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]