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Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town

First published: 1912
Pages: 148

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Preface
9:39
The Hostelry of Mr. Smith
51:26
The Speculations of Jefferson Thorpe
36:50
The Marine Excursion of the Knights of Pythias
34:18
The Ministrations of the Rev. Mr. Drone
30:29
The Whirlwind Campaign in Mariposa
15:47
The Beacon on the Hill
20:46
The Extraordinary Entanglement of Mr. Pupkin
23:23
The Fore-ordained Attachment of Zena Pepperleigh and Peter Pupkin
24:53
The Mariposa Bank Mystery
38:30
The Great Election in Missinaba County
24:47
The Candidacy of Mr. Smith
21:09
L'Envoi. The Train to Mariposa
11:58

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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. Free to read as a PDF and EPUB edition.

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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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