Book
Sunshine sketches of a little town / Stephen Leacock.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780735252875 (trade paperback)
- Physical Description: 191 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition: Penguin modern classics edition.
- Publisher: [Toronto] : Penguin Random House Canada Limited, [2017]
- Copyright: ©2017
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Originally published: Bell and Cockburn, 1912. |
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| Subject: | City and town life > Ontario > Mariposa > Fiction. Brothers > Ontario > Mariposa > Fiction. Brothers and sisters > Ontario > Mariposa > Fiction. Canada > Social life and customs > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Humorous fiction. Short stories. |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Stroud Branch | FIC Leaco | 31681010346757 | FICTIONPBK | Available | - |
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Affectionately combining both the idyllic and ironic, Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town is a colourful, imaginative, and thoroughly entertaining portrait of small town Ontario. This is Stephen Leacock at his best.
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 Stephen Leacock spent many summers. It's a brilliant satire about small towns, small-town people, and small-town occurrences.
Life in Mariposa is never dull or ordinary. It's 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.
