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Classic, Kindly Leacock
On this day in 1869 the Canadian humorist Stephen Leacock was born. Twenty-five of Leacock's forty-odd books are in his comic mode, Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town and Arcadian Adventures of the Idle Rich being most well-known, but all exemplifying his belief that "the humour of the highest culture, the humour of the future," is born of "kindliness" and "wide charity of mind." |
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Arcadian Adventures of the Idle Rich
non-fiction |
Hellements of Hickonomics
non-fiction |
Leacock on Life
by Stephen Leacock, Gerald Lynch (Editor)
essays |
Literary Lapses
short stories |
My Discovery of England
non-fiction |
My Financial Career and Other Follies
short stories |
Social Criticism: The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice and Other Essays
by Stephen Leacock, Alan Bowker (Editor)
essays |
Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town
non-fiction |
The Gathering Financial Crisis in Canada
non-fiction |
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National Library of Canada
The NLC presents an online exhibit titled "Stephen Leacock: Humorist and Educator," featuring a chronological timeline of events in the writer's life, a biography, bibliography, and commentary on works including Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town, Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich, The Boy I Left Behind Me, Humour and Humanity: An Introduction to the Study of Humour, and Literary Lapses. Also offers selected quotations on Leacock from Robertson Davies, Timothy Findley, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Northrop Frye, Gerald Lynch, and others. This website is also available in French. Highly recommended.
"God bless Stephen Leacock. I write that from the heart. With his stories and his books, his people and his insights, he has left a legacy for everyone who reads and-I must add-for everyone who writes. It well may be, indeed, that Stephen Butler Leacock is the grandfather of us all."
-- Timothy Findley |  | Online Books Page
Find electronic texts of works including:
Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich
The Dawn of Canadian History: A Chronicle of Aboriginal Canada
Literary Lapses
Moonbeams from the Larger Lunacy
Nonsense Novels
Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town | | Review: A Bibliography of Stephen Leacock
Find a review of Carl Spadoni's A Bibliography of Stephen Leacock from the Winter 1999/2000 edition of the University of Toronto Quarterly. The review includes the writer's own views on the "possible barriers to canonization" which have prevented Leacock from achieving greater recognition.
"Spadoni hopes to benefit book collectors, antiquarian dealers, librarians, editors, and, above all, `the scholar and reader who wishes to examine, enjoy, and discover Leacock's work.' He particularly foresees new editions of Leacock. I wonder whether even such an impressive work as this is going to spark a renaissance for Leacock. ... Leacock wrote for a popular audience, which makes him suspect among scholars; for an international English-speaking audience, which makes him suspect among Canadian nationalists; and in a medium, the humorous essay, not held in the same high esteem as other prose forms. I hope I'm wrong, and that this bibliography triggers the vigorous re-evaluation Leacock deserves despite current attitudes that block many from serious consideration of his work." | |
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