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Sunshine Sketches Of A Little Town

Sunshine Sketches Of A Little Town

Leacock, Stephen

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ISBN10: 1162686200
ISBN13: 9781162686202
Publisher: Kessinger Pub Llc
Published: Sep 10 2010
Pages: 148
Weight: 0.59
Height: 0.32 Width: 7.50 Depth: 9.25
Language: English
Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town is a collection of short stories written by Stephen Leacock. The book was first published in 1912 and is set in the fictional town of Mariposa, which is based on the small town of Orillia, Ontario, where Leacock grew up.The stories are humorous and satirical, depicting the lives of the townspeople and their eccentricities. The characters include the town's mayor, Josh Smith, who is more interested in his own image than the well-being of the town, and the town's doctor, who is more concerned with his own health than that of his patients.The book is divided into two parts, with the first part focusing on the town's more prominent citizens and the second part on the town's less well-known inhabitants. The stories are told from the perspective of a narrator who is not a resident of Mariposa but is familiar with the town and its inhabitants.The book is considered a classic of Canadian literature and is often compared to the works of Mark Twain and Charles Dickens. It has been adapted for stage and screen several times, including a 1952 film adaptation directed by George Seaton.In the city, people never read the newspapers, not really, only little bits and scraps of them. But in Mariposa it's different. There they read the whole thing from cover to cover, and they build up on it, in the course of years, a range of acquirement that would put a college president to the blush. Anybody who has ever heard Henry Mullins and Peter Glover talk about the future of China will know just what I mean.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

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