Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town

One of Canada's most cherished writers, British-born Stephen Leacock was probably best known and loved for his works of light humor. First published in 1912, Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town is one of his most popular and enduring pieces of fiction. This collection of short stories describes the people that comprise a typical but fictional small town in Ontario - Mariposa. The book's appeal lies in the universality of the characters Leacock describes so eloquently, as they live out their "large" lives in the little town.

Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town is a sequence of stories by Stephen Leacock, first published in 1912. 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 Wissanotti. This work has remained popular for its universal appeal. Many of the characters, though modeled on townspeople of Orillia, are small town archetypes. Their shortcomings and weaknesses are presented in a humorous but affectionate way.

Canadian political scientist and economist Stephen Leacock had an interesting side career as an immensely popular humor writer. In this engaging volume, he collects a series of charming sketches and vignettes centered on the fictional village of Mariposa, which he describes as an amalgamation of dozens of small towns scattered throughout the Canadian countryside.

Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town
Stephen Leacock, Canadian writer and economist (1869-1944)

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Table of Contents
- About This Book
- Preface
- The Hostelry Of Mr. Smith
- The Speculations Of Jefferson Thorpe
- The Marine Excursions Of The Knights Of Pythias
- The Ministrations Of The Rev. Mr. Drone
- The Whirlwind Campaign In Mariposa
- The Beacon On The Hill
- The Extraordinary Entanglement Of Mr. Pupkin
- The Fore-ordained Attachment Of Zena Pepperleigh And Peter Pupkin
- The Mariposa Bank Mystery
- The Great Election In Missinaba County
- The Candidacy Of Mr. Smith
- The Train To Mariposa

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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.

This vintage book contains Stephen Leacock's 1912 sequence of stories, "Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town". Commonly hailed as being amongst the most important examples of humorous Canadian literature, "Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town" is set in Mariposa, a microcosm of Canadian society populated by hilarious small-town stereotypes. Contents include: "The Hostelry of Mr. Smith", "The Speculations of Jefferson Thorpe", "The Marine Excursions of the Knights of Pythias", "The Ministrations of the Rev. Mr. Drone", "The Whirlwind Campaign in Mariposa", "The Beacon on the Hill", "The Extraordinary Entanglement of Mr. Pupkin", "The Fore-ordained Attachment of Zena Pepperleigh and Peter Pupkin", et cetera. Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern edition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction. This book was first published in 1912.

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An Algonquin Maiden by G. Mercer Adam
All Afloat by William Wood
Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
Arcadian Adventures With the Idle Rich by Stephen Leacock
The Backwoods of Canada by Catharine Parr Traill
The Backwoodsmen by Charles G. D. Roberts
Blake's Burden by Harold Bindloss
The Buccaneer Farmer by Harold Bindloss
Canada for Gentlemen by James Seton Cockburn
A Canadian Bankclerk by J. P. Buschlen
The Canadian Dominion by Oscard SkeltoN
Canadian Wonder Tales by Cyrus Macmillan
Canoe Mates in Canada by St. George Rathborne
The Cariboo Trail by Agnes C. Laut
Carnac's Folly by Gilbert Parker
The Cattle-Baron's Daughter by Harold Bindloss
The Clockmaker by Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Crumps, The Plain Story of a Canadian Who Went by Louis Keene
The Day of Sir John Macdonald by Joseph Pope
Dick's Desertion by Marjorie L. C. Pickthall
Firesides of French Canada by Mary Wilson Alloway
Fathers of Confederation by A. H. U. Colquhoun
LaChance Mine Mystery by Susan Carleton Jones
A Study in Canadian Politics by J. W. Dafoe
Legends of Vancouver by E. Pauline Johnson
Lords of the North by A.C. Laut
Brave and Gallant Gentleman by Robert Watson
On The Firing Line by Anna Chapin Ray and Hamilton Brock Fuller
Over Prairie Trails by Frederick Philip Grove
The Great Plains by Lawrence J. Burpee
The 'Patriotes' of '37 by Alfred D. Decelles
The Pacific Coast by Agnes C. Laut
Prescott of Saskatchewan by Harold Bindloss
The Railway Builders by Oscar D. Skelton
Raw Gold by Bertrand W. Sinclair
The Red River Colony by Louis Aubrey Wood
The Seigneurs of Old Canada:A Chronicle of New-World Feudalism by William Bennett Munro
The Silver Maple by Marian Keith
Stranded in Arcady by Francis Lynde
A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder by James De Mille
Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town by Stephen Leacock
Thirty Indian Legends by Margaret Bemister
The Tribune of Nova Scotia by W. L. Grant
White Narcissus by Raymond Knister
Wild Animals I Have Known by Ernest Thompson Seton
Wild Youth by Gilbert Parker
Winston of the Prairie by Harold Bindloss
The Young Crusoe by Barbara Hofland
The Yukon Trail by William MacLeod Raine
The Harbor Master by Theodore Goodridge Roberts

A Canadian teacher, political scientist, writer, and humourist. He is known for his light humour along with criticisms of people's follies. 
Contents
Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town (1912)
Nonsense Novels (1920)
Literary Lapses (1910)
Behind the Beyond, and Other Contributions to Human Knowledge (1913)
Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich (1914)
The Dawn of Canadian History : A Chronicle of Aboriginal Canada (1915)
Winsome Winnie and other New Nonsense Novels (1921)

Further Foolishness (1916)
My Discovery of England (1922)
Moonbeams from the Larger Lunacy (1915)
The Mariner of St. Malo : A chronicle of the voyages of Jacques Cartier (1915)
The Hohenzollerns in America (1919)
Adventurers of the Far North: A Chronicle of the Frozen Seas (1914)
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice (1920)
The Hohenzollerns in America (1919)
These satires attack the pride of the "great" reduced to lower East Side 
new York, the "side effects" of the war and the movies and other foibles of 
the day with occasionally a serious moment of sincere human appreciation.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice (1920)
These are troubled times. As the echoes of the war die away the sound of a 
new conflict rises on our ears. All the world is filled with industrial unrest. 
Strike follows upon strike. A world that has known five years of fighting 
has lost its taste for the honest drudgery of work. Cincinnatus will not back 
to his plow, or, at the best, stands sullenly between his plow-handles arguing 
for a higher wage.