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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 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 list may not reflect recent changes. A.
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 ...
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]
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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.
Let the album rollout begin! Taylor Swift is teasing a second cover image for her upcoming The Tortured Poets Department and has announced a new bonus track. Swift dropped the news during her Eras ...