Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town

Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town

Title: Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town
Author: Stephen Leacock
Release: 2025-02-25
Kind: audiobook
Genre: Fiction
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Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town Stephen Leacock
This annotated edition of "Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town" includes: A biography of Stephen Leacock By Peter Gilchrist McArthur (1923). "Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town" is considered to be the masterpiece of Stephen Leacock. Originally published in 1912, it is a set of tales occurring in the fictional hamlet of Mariposa, on the shores of Lake Wissanotti. Many of the characters in the stories are patterned on locals of Orillia, Ontario. The stories are  gems of Canadian small town folklore. Leacock brings the quirks, eccentricities and flaws of these everyday people to life in the most humorous way. Every corner of Mariposa has a story to tell! Quoting Leacock: "Mariposa is not a real town. On the contrary, it is about seventy or eighty of them. You may find them all the way from Lake Superior to the sea, with the same square streets and the same maple trees and the same churches and hotels."

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