Author: Stephen LeacockPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
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Back to Prosperity, The Great Opportunity of the Empire Conference, by Stephen Leacock
Author: Stephen LeacockBack to Prosperity: The Great Opportunity of the Empire Conference
Author: Stephen Butler LeacockPublisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Back to Prosperity: The Great Opportunity of the Empire Conference" by Stephen Butler Leacock. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Back to Prosperity
Author: Stephen LeacockPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN:
Category : Currency question
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Extraordinary Canadians:Stephen Leacock
Author: Margaret MacMillanPublisher: Penguin Canada
ISBN: 0143175211
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 117
Book Description
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.
Stephen Leacock
Author: Gerald LynchPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773561676
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
From the preface: "Stephen Leacock is still often regarded as a writer of lightweight amusements and unchallenging satire, as an author without an imaginative centre who lacked a vision of sufficient power and clarity to sustain a lifetime of serious writing. According to this view, which has been too easily received, Leacock squandered an early, promising talent (though he was in fact, middle-aged when he published Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town in 1912), and consequently his writings, like his legendary Lord Ronald, "rode madly off in all directions." After years of chasing down Leacock's numerous literary mounts, I can assert that none of this is true. Leacock's writing emerges from a centre that is the confluence of the two traditions of humanism and toryism, traditions that found in Leacock fertile ground for the propagation of such qualities as tolerance of human fallibility and acceptance of social responsibility. What is remarkable with respect to Leacock's literary output is that even his furthest-flung, seemingly inconsequential humourous pieces move in relation to this tory-humanist centre." Lynch invites us to accompany him on an odyssey through Leacock's two main works, Sunshine Sketches and Arcadian Adventures of the Idle Rich ... He aspires to enlighten the open-minded reader, and is highly successful in doing so." Elspeth Cameron, Coordinator of Canadian Literature and Language Program, New College, University of Toronto
Inequalities and the Progressive Era
Author: Guillaume ValletPublisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 1788972651
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Inequalities and the Progressive Era features contributors from all corners of the world, each exploring a different type of inequality during the ‘Progressive Era’ (1890s-1930s). Though this era is most associated with the United States, it corresponds to a historical period in which profound changes and progress are realized or expected all over the globe.
The Crown Colonist
Author: Redefining the Bonds of Commonwealth, 1939-1948
Author: F. McKenziePublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230554687
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
This work is a path-breaking study of the changing attitudes of Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa to Britain and the Commonwealth in the 1940s and the effect of those changes on their individual and collective standing in international affairs. The focus is imperial preference, the largest discriminatory tariff system in the world and a potent symbol of Commonwealth unity. It is based on archival research in Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the United States.
Catalog of Copyright Entries. New Series
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright OfficePublisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2438
Book Description
Leacock on Life
Author: Stephen LeacockPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9780802035943
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Stephen Leacock's views on life provide a uniquely Canadian take on the world, an ironic perspective which continues to delight and instruct readers around the globe. An anthology of Leacock's wit and wisdom.