Stephen Leacock
Canada's foremost historian examines the life of a great humorist.
Stephen Leacock's satiric masterpiece Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town captures "the Empire forever"mentality that marked Anglo-Canadian life in the early decades of the twentieth century. Historian Margaret Macmillan — whose books Women of the Raj and Paris 1919 cast fresh light on the colonial legacy — has great affection for Leacock's gentle wit and sharp-eyed insight. The renowned historian examines Leacock's life as a poor but ambitious student who rose to become an economist, celebrated academic, and, most importantly, the beloved humorist who taught Canadians to laugh at themselves.
- Author
- Margaret MacMillan, John Ralston Saul
- Format
- hardcover
- Pages
- 204
- Series
- Extraordinary Canadians
- Publisher
- Penguin Global
- Language
- english
- ISBN
- 9780670066810
- Genres
- canada, history, biography
- Release date
- 2011
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