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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... University Library Rare Books and Special Collections Department , the McGill University Archives , and the Department of Culture and Heritage , Leacock Museum , Orillia ( whose permission to use material in the Leacock collection is ...
... University Library Rare Books and Special Collections Department , the McGill University Archives , and the Department of Culture and Heritage , Leacock Museum , Orillia ( whose permission to use material in the Leacock collection is ...
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... University campus , with his loose - fitting clothes , tattered gown , and coonskin coat , banging his heavy cane and filling the halls with his rich voice , holding court in the afternoons at the University Club a popular teacher , a ...
... University campus , with his loose - fitting clothes , tattered gown , and coonskin coat , banging his heavy cane and filling the halls with his rich voice , holding court in the afternoons at the University Club a popular teacher , a ...
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... University Magazine in 1907 as a vehicle for sophisticated commentary for a wide audience , like the best of the great British magazines , and Leacock was one of its major contributors . For this and for British and American journals ...
... University Magazine in 1907 as a vehicle for sophisticated commentary for a wide audience , like the best of the great British magazines , and Leacock was one of its major contributors . For this and for British and American journals ...
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... University of Toronto , an honours course only recently introduced . All his life he was fluent in French and German , and one essay in this book , “ How Much Does Language Change , " illustrates his strong interest in Introduction 21.
... University of Toronto , an honours course only recently introduced . All his life he was fluent in French and German , and one essay in this book , “ How Much Does Language Change , " illustrates his strong interest in Introduction 21.
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... university ( the best trustees were rich but invisible , or dead ) and that women distracted young men from the pursuit of knowledge . Modern education merely substituted " four years in college for one in a workshop . " The academic ...
... university ( the best trustees were rich but invisible , or dead ) and that women distracted young men from the pursuit of knowledge . Modern education merely substituted " four years in college for one in a workshop . " The academic ...
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