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Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town

by Stephen Leacock

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1912
Pages
148
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5 h 43 min · 13 parts

  1. Preface

    9:39

  2. The Hostelry of Mr. Smith

    51:26

  3. The Speculations of Jefferson Thorpe

    36:50

  4. The Marine Excursion of the Knights of Pythias

    34:18

  5. The Ministrations of the Rev. Mr. Drone

    30:29

  6. The Whirlwind Campaign in Mariposa

    15:47

  7. The Beacon on the Hill

    20:46

  8. The Extraordinary Entanglement of Mr. Pupkin

    23:23

  9. The Fore-ordained Attachment of Zena Pepperleigh and Peter Pupkin

    24:53

  10. The Mariposa Bank Mystery

    38:30

  11. The Great Election in Missinaba County

    24:47

  12. The Candidacy of Mr. Smith

    21:09

  13. L'Envoi. The Train to Mariposa

    11:58

Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town (1912) is a public domain work.

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Stephen Leacock built the little town of Mariposa on the shore of Lake Wissanotti and filled it with barbers, bankers, hotel keepers, undertakers, and clergymen whose small dramas he treats as grand comedy. Loosely modelled on Orillia, Ontario, where he summered, Mariposa stands in for every self-important small town, and Leacock pokes at its boosterism, its church rivalries, and its financial schemes with an affection that never quite curdles into cruelty. The sinking of the excursion steamer Mariposa Belle in a few feet of water is a set piece of pure comic timing. First published in 1912, it remains one of the enduring works of Canadian humour and Leacock's best-loved book.

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Stephen Leacock

Stephen Leacock (1869-1944) was a Canadian economist, political scientist, and, for a stretch of the early twentieth century, the most widely read humorist in the English-speaking world. He taught at McGill University in Montreal and published dozens of books, mixing gentle satire with real affection for the ordinary and the absurd.

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Book facts

First published
1912
Reading time
About 4 hours
Pages
148
Language
English
Genre
Satire
Formats
PDF, EPUB, Read online, Audiobook