Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town (Hardcover) - Leacock, Stephen

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY WILL FERGUSON. Stephen Leacock was one of the bestselling English-language humourists in the world. Referred to as The Canadian Mark Twain, his most famous book was Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town, published in 1912.Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town, which first appeared as a newspaper serial, chronicles life in the fictional community of Mariposa, modelled on Orillia, Ontario, where Leacock spent many summers. Its a brilliant satire about small towns, small-town people, and small-town occurrences. Life in Mariposa is never dull or ordinary. Its a town full of eccentrics, where boats sent to rescue passengers from a sinking steamer have to be rescued themselves, where the leading citizen is a 280-pound illiterate saloonkeeper, and where a barber who stumbles into a fortune is heralded as a financial wizard.

Hardcover. English. Penguin. 2006. ISBN: 9780670065080. 192 pp. Good with dw. Book No: 65509