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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 ...
The Canadian Authors Association was founded in 1921. The founding organizers included John Murray Gibbon, Bernard Keble Sandwell, Stephen Leacock, and Pelham Edgar. [2] By the end of its first year the organization had more than 700 members.
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]
Pages in category "Books by Stephen Leacock" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
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.
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 ...
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The book remains a classic of Canadian literature, [10] and was followed by Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich in 1914. An annual Canadian literary award, the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour, is named in his memory. [5] The award is presented to the year's best work of humorous literature by a Canadian.