Our Heritage Of Liberty Its Origin Its Achievement Its Crisisa Book For War Time

Author : Stephen Leacock
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1340826097

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Our Heritage of Liberty Its Origin, Its Achievement, Its Crisisa Book for War Time by Stephen Leacock Pdf

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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 75 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1942
Category : Human rights
ISBN : OCLC:222072863

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Our Heritage of Liberty by Anonim Pdf

Author : Stephen Leacock
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781473375567

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Our Heritage of Liberty - its Origin, its Achievement, its Crisis by Stephen Leacock Pdf

This volume contains Stephen Leacock’s 1942 wartime treatise, "Our Heritage of Liberty - Its Origin, Its Achievement, Its Crisis". This fascinating and thought-provoking text will appeal to those with an interest in war-inspired literature, and it would make for a worthy addition to collections of related works. The chapters of this volume include: “Britain and America”, “The Good and the Bad Old Times”, “The March of Progress”, “Liberty in the Ancient World, “The Shadow of the Dark and Middle Ages”, “National States”, “The Growth of Popular Rights”, and more. Stephen P. H Butler Leacock (1869 – 1944) was a Canadian writer, humourist, and teacher. He was amongst the most widely read English-speaking authors in the world during the early twentieth century, and is best remembered for his humourous novels. We are republishing this vintage book now in an affordable, modern edition - complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the author.

Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Copyright Office, Library of Congress
Page : 1830 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Copyright
ISBN : STANFORD:36105006357219

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Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series by Library of Congress. Copyright Office Pdf

Author : David Staines
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780776601465

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Stephen Leacock by David Staines Pdf

This collection of essays explores the many dimensions of the writings of Stephen Leacock, the well-loved Canadian author of Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town. Published in English.

Author : Stephen Leacock
Publisher : New Canadian Library
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2010-12-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781551993782

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My Financial Career and Other Follies by Stephen Leacock Pdf

This original NCL collection brings together Leacock’s comic masterpieces, the many varieties of his remarkable humour. In one story a young man is seized by fear as he attempts to open his first bank account. In another, Lord Ronald, the beloved of Gertrude the Governess, “flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.” In a third, the Mariposa Belle sinks in the shallow waters of Lake Wissanotti. Completing these timeless comedies are two of Leacock’s own essays on humour.

Author : Margaret MacMillan
Publisher : Penguin Canada
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2009-03-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780143175216

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Extraordinary Canadians:Stephen Leacock by Margaret MacMillan Pdf

Stephen Leacock's satiric masterpiece Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town captures "the Empire forever" mentality that marked Anglo-Canadian life in the early decades of the twentieth century. Historian Margaret Macmillan—whose books Women of the Raj and Paris 1919 cast fresh light on the colonial legacy—has great affection for Leacock's gentle wit and sharp-eyed insight. The renowned historian examines Leacock's life as a poor but ambitious student who rose to become an economist, celebrated academic, and, most importantly, the beloved humorist who taught Canadians to laugh at themselves.

Author : Stephen Leacock
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1973-12-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781487586331

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Social Criticism by Stephen Leacock Pdf

Stephen Leacock, long celebrated as Canada's foremost humorist and social satirist, has received little recognition for his considerable accomplishments as a serious thinker and social critic. In fact, Leacock was a professor of political economy, and more than half of his writings addressed the pressing issues of his day. This volume represents the neglected aspect of Leacock's career, gathering together his writings on a range of subjects, including imperialism, education and culture, religion and morality, feminism, prohibition, and social justice. The collection begins with 'Greater Canada: an appeal,' which dates from 1907, when Leacock was a popular lecturer advancing the cause of imperialism. Bowker points out that, for Leacock, imperialism was more a spiritual mission than a political agenda, representing the opportunity to unite Canadians, to inspire allegiance to a lofty tradition, and thereby to combat the threat of materialism, urbanism, fragmentation, and continentalism. These themes resurface in subsequent essays, culminating in The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice, which was published in 1920. Carefully selected, and prefaced with an updated introduction to Leacock's life and work, these essays contribute to our understanding of Leacock and illuminate his role as a major figure in Canadian intellectual history.

Author : Stephen Leacock
Publisher : New Canadian Library
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2009-02-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781551991832

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Literary Lapses by Stephen Leacock Pdf

The humour, irony, and wit of Stephen Leacock have never been shown to better advantage than in Literary Lapses, his first collection of comic writings. Within its pages are such classic stories as the man who is seized by fear as he opens a bank account; the awful case of the young man who dies because he cannot tell a lie; the astonishing tale of the baby who ate thirteen Christmas dinners, and many other tales that have become part of the world's comic literature. When Literary Lapses first appeared in 1910, it was an instant critical and popular success. Within a few years of its publication, Leacock was acknowledged as the English-speaking world’s most beloved humourist.

Author : Stephen Leacock
Publisher : New Canadian Library
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780771093975

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Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town by Stephen Leacock Pdf

Affectionately combining both the idyllic and ironic, Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town is Stephen Leacock’s most beloved book. Set in fictional Mariposa, an Ontario town on the shore of Lake Wissanotti, these sketches present a remarkable range of characters: some irritating, some exasperating, some foolhardy, but all endearing. Painted with the skilful brushstrokes of a great comic artist, the delightful inhabitants of Mariposa represent the people of small towns everywhere. As fresh, funny, and insightful today as when it was first published in 1912, Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town is Stephen Leacock at his best – colourful, imaginative, and thoroughly entertaining.

Author : Stephen Leacock
Publisher : Penguin Canada
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2009-08-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780143174783

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Penguin Black Classic Sunshine Sketches Of A Small Town by Stephen Leacock Pdf

Life in Mariposa is never dull or ordinary. It’s a town full of eccentrics, where boats sent to rescue passengers from a sinking steamer have to be rescued themselves, where the leading citizen is a 280-pound illiterate saloonkeeper, and where a barber who stumbles into a fortune is heralded as a financial wizard. Referred to as “The Canadian Mark Twain,” Stephen Leacock was one of the bestselling English-language humorists in the world. His most famous book, Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town, chronicles life in the fictional community of Mariposa, modelled on Orillia, Ontario, where Leacock spent many summers. It’s a brilliant satire about small towns, small-town people, and small-town occurrences. Available for the first time in enriched e-book format, this edition offers visual and historical insights into Leacock's creation via electronic weblinks. Like a full-colour footnote, select words and phrases throughout the book are links to websites that contain a wealth of additional information, pictures, definitions and historical notes. Now, with the click of a mouse, you can investigate the world of Mariposa without having to leave your screen. "As funny now as if was then, and its winning comedy comes directly from Leacock’s humanity."—Toronto Star "Leacock had a wonderful ear for dialogue and was superbly skilled in creating polished, self-contained scenes and in evoking character with a few sure strokes." — Will Ferguson

Author : Gerald Lynch
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0773506527

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Stephen Leacock by Gerald Lynch Pdf

Gerald Lynch offers new insights into the work of a popular Canadian humourist in Stephen Leacock: Humour and Humanity. He considers Leacock's satire to be the result of a combination of two traditions - toryism and humanism - and examines the relation between Leacock's theory of humour and his view of the world.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 874 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1942
Category : American literature
ISBN : UIUC:30112083013562

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A Catalog of Books Represented by Library of Congress Printed Cards Issued to July 31, 1942 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Authors, Canadian
ISBN : STANFORD:36105024596046

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Contemporary Canadian Authors by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jack David,Robert Lecker,Ellen Quigley
Publisher : Canadian Writers and Their Wor
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1993-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015026941099

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Canadian Writers and Their Works by Jack David,Robert Lecker,Ellen Quigley Pdf

The cumulated index of the Canadian Writers and their Works Fiction Series.