Ebook {Epub PDF} Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town by Stephen Leacock

In the case of Sunshine Sketches, Leacock’s target is a fictitious small town in southern Ontario, which could be, and often is, compared to all other small towns across the country. Leacock immerses the reader amidst a collection of ordinary characters who become extraordinary due to Leacock’s grasp of the comedy within human nature and the scope of small-town culture and www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 11 mins. Like Sherwood Anderson's Windesburg, Ohio, Stephen Leacock's Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town () is a sequence of short stories or vignettes about the people that populate a small town. In Sunshine Sketches the fictional "Little Town" is Mariposa on the shore of Lake Wissanotti. Leacock resisted efforts to tie Mariposa to his time in Orillia, Ontario noting.  · Project Gutenberg's Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town, by Stephen Leacock This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever.

Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town Paperback - August 1, by Stephen Leacock (Author) › Visit Amazon's Stephen Leacock Page. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. See search results for this author. Stephen Leacock (Author) out of 5 stars 11 ratings. Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town is a sequence of stories by Stephen Leacock, first published in It is generally considered to be one of the most enduring classics of Canadian humorous literature. The fictional setting for these stories is Mariposa, a small town on the shore of Lake www.doorway.rugh drawn from his experiences in Orillia, Ontario, Leacock notes: "Mariposa is not a. Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town is a delightful read by Stephen Leacock. I had to read this for a Canadian Literature class, and my gosh is it such a gem! It's one of those historical books I had never even heard of, yet it is such a staple for Canadian culture. Hilarity and hypocrisy ensues in this book, and it's just overall amazing.

Sunshine Sketches is about Orillia, Ontario, Canada, where Leacock had his summer home. on Brewery Bay (he once wrote, "I have known that name, the old Brewery Bay, to make. people feel thirsty by correspondence as far away as Nevada.") His home is now maintained. as a historic site by the town of Orillia. Set in the fictional landscape of Mariposa on the shores of Lake Wissanotti in Missinaba County, Leacock’s Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town is an affectionate satire of small town life. This series of humourous connected sketches about graft, high finance, religion, love and romance is, on one level, an intimate, comic portrait of town life and local politics. This is a fun book in Penguin's 'must have in your home library' series of Canadian Classics. The 'Little Town' is Mariposa based on Orillia which is in the lake country north of Toronto. The town's characters include Mr. Smith, the hotel keeper, Jefferson Thorpe the barber, Reverend Drone the minister, Peter Pupkin a bank clerk, and others.