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Sunshine Sketches of A Little Town
de Leacock, Stephen
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Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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London: The Bodley Head, 1912. Hardcover. Very good. First UK Edition. xii, [4], 264, iv, 16 pp. Octavo. Hardcover, publisher's red cloth, gilt lettering on the front cover and spine, front cover impressed ruled. Boards slightly dust soiled and darkened, untrimmed fore-edge, some uncut. A few leaves have chipping on the margins, not damaging the text. Minor foxing spots to the preliminary pages, else bright and clean, unmarked. Colourful frontispiece by Cyrus Cuneo. Publisher and author's adverts at the end. Very good condition. Stephen P. H. Butler Leacock (1869–1944) was a Canadian teacher, political scientist, and renowned humorist. From 1915 to 1925, he held the title of the best-known English-speaking humorist globally, famous for his light humor and critiques of human folly. One of his enduring classics is "Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town," a collection of stories first published in 1912. Originally serialized in the Montreal Daily Star from February to June 1912, Leacock reworked and compiled them into the book, which was released on August 9, 1912. The work is considered a cornerstone of Canadian humorous literature. 1912
Sinopsis
Decades after his death in 1944, STEPHEN LEACOCK remains one of the world's best-loved humorous writers. Born in 1869 and educated in Canada, Leacock was Professor Economics at McGill University. His greatest fame, however, was as a humorist, thanks to a stream of books that followed Literary Lapses (1910) at the rate of almost one a year. Of these, Sunshine Sketches has proved to be his most popular, ever since its publication in 1912. Acclaimed cartoonist SETH is the author of the comic book series Palookaville and such graphic novels as It's a Good Life, If You Don't Weaken ; Wimbledon Green ; and The Great Northern Brotherhood of Canadian Cartoonists . As a book designer, he has worked on such projects as The Portable Dorothy Parker , the bestselling Complete Peanuts collection, and Lemony Snicket's new series, All The Wrong Questions . His work frequently appears in The Walrus and The New Yorker . In 2011, Seth received the Harbourfront Festival Prize. He lives in Guelph.
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- Aquila Books
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 144402
- Título
- Sunshine Sketches of A Little Town
- Autor
- Leacock, Stephen
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- Estado del libro
- Usado - Muy bueno
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Editorial
- The Bodley Head
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- 1912
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