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Leacock on Life by Estate of Stephen Leacock (editor); Gerald Lynch (editor) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Leacock on Life about?

said the chairman, every chairman, from Fort William to Victoria, -"needs no introduction." Owing to this bright thought, I never got any' (MDW 1). More brightly then, I begin again: Stephen Leacock had something to say about everything (even his own introduction), and all of it is still entertaining and relevant. Leacock on Life begins properly with the preface to Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town (1912), where Leacock's authorial persona introduces himself to the world for the first time, giving the facts of his life in an ironic voice that is matched only by the Skeches narrator on Mariposa. This is, I trust, a more telling observation than it may first appear, as it can help towards answering the much-vexed question of Leacock's true view of Mariposa, and consequently of the town on which Mariposa was based, Orillia, and of the country, Canada, which the town in the sunshine was imagined to represent. That is, despite the unrelenting irony and passing satiric shadows of Sunshine Sketches, Leacock may well have cherished Mariposa as he did his own life; and Leacock, apparently a stranger to self-doubt, thoroughly enjoyed his seventy-four years. But apart from its critical value

Who reads Leacock on Life?

Author

Estate of Stephen Leacock (editor); Gerald Lynch (editor)

Publisher

University of Toronto Press

Published

2002

Language

EN

ISBN

9781442676619

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Criticism, Literary Collections, Humor