Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town - Paperback

by Stephen Leacock (Author), Carl Spadoni (Editor)

"This new edition of Leacock's pastoral comedy should provoke new critical consideration of a literary work that is far more complex and richer than we have so far noticed." -- Russell Brown, University of Toronto

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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. On another level, the narrative is a powerful commentary on the workings of community values and on Canada's place within the British Empire.

The Broadview edition includes a critical introduction, thorough annotation, a list of textual variants, and a range of contextual materials, including Leacock's stage adaptation of Sunshine Sketches.

Author Biography

Carl Spadoni the Research Collections Librarian at McMaster University Library, is the editor of Stephen Leacock's My Recollections of Chicago and The Doctrine of Laissez-Faire (1998), and the author of A Bibliography of Stephen Leacock (1998).