On the Front Line of Life: Stephen Leacock : Memories and Reflections, 1935-1944In the last decade of his life, Leacock turned to writing informal essays that blended humour with a conversational style and ripened wisdom to address the issues he cared about most - education, literature, economics, Canada and its place in the world - and to confront the joys and sorrows of his own life. With an introduction that sets them in the context of his life, thoughts and times, these essays reveal a passionate, intellegent, personal Leacock, against a backdrop of Depression and war, finding hope and conveying the timeless message that only the human spirit can bring social justice, peace, and progress. |
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... English language . His lectures in the late 1920s were earning him $ 350 per appearance in the United States.2 On his estate at Old Brewery Bay he spent the long summer days gar- dening , fishing , boating , and entertaining , but ...
... English language . His lectures in the late 1920s were earning him $ 350 per appearance in the United States.2 On his estate at Old Brewery Bay he spent the long summer days gar- dening , fishing , boating , and entertaining , but ...
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... English editor that after his retirement he might come " home . " In the last sixty years , he said , Canada had been filled in “ like a huge picture lying in a frame from the frozen seas to the American line , from Nova Scotia to the ...
... English editor that after his retirement he might come " home . " In the last sixty years , he said , Canada had been filled in “ like a huge picture lying in a frame from the frozen seas to the American line , from Nova Scotia to the ...
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... English and living under the British flag , " he wrote in 1930 , " may make a British subject in the legal sense , but not in the real sense , in the light of national history and continuity . " Thus his colonization schemes called for ...
... English and living under the British flag , " he wrote in 1930 , " may make a British subject in the legal sense , but not in the real sense , in the light of national history and continuity . " Thus his colonization schemes called for ...
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... funny train , it seemed to us , all open and quite unlike the little English carriages , cut into compartments that set the fields spinning round when you looked — out of the window . Newmarket in 1876 was Life on the Old Farm 49.
... funny train , it seemed to us , all open and quite unlike the little English carriages , cut into compartments that set the fields spinning round when you looked — out of the window . Newmarket in 1876 was Life on the Old Farm 49.
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