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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... Western Canada in 1936–7 . Suddenly it seemed as though the son were conjuring from the past the voice and manner of Stephen Leacock as he warned isolationist North Americans about what another European war would mean : Do not think ...
... Western Canada in 1936–7 . Suddenly it seemed as though the son were conjuring from the past the voice and manner of Stephen Leacock as he warned isolationist North Americans about what another European war would mean : Do not think ...
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... West " in a blaze of front - page publicity and broadcasts over every province , " and the resulting book won the Governor General's Award for Non - Fiction . " Leacock's expertise and literary reputation opened lucrative opportunities ...
... West " in a blaze of front - page publicity and broadcasts over every province , " and the resulting book won the Governor General's Award for Non - Fiction . " Leacock's expertise and literary reputation opened lucrative opportunities ...
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... West , but he is wrong in almost every detail of the story . The following year in " So This Is Winnipeg " he first told the story of his uncle E.P. Leacock , who went to Winnipeg for the great boom of 1880-2 and drew Leacock's father ...
... West , but he is wrong in almost every detail of the story . The following year in " So This Is Winnipeg " he first told the story of his uncle E.P. Leacock , who went to Winnipeg for the great boom of 1880-2 and drew Leacock's father ...
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... West . One can easily believe that this is the wound that some suggest the sensitive boy covered with humour and his carefully cultivated , sometimes domineering , persona . 14 But Robertson Davies cautions us not to “ judge Leacock as ...
... West . One can easily believe that this is the wound that some suggest the sensitive boy covered with humour and his carefully cultivated , sometimes domineering , persona . 14 But Robertson Davies cautions us not to “ judge Leacock as ...
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... western alienation , with substantial lands and sixty - four kilometres of track by 1887. He suffered financially with the collapse of the boom , and when Norquay's government fell in1887 and he lost his own seat the following year ...
... western alienation , with substantial lands and sixty - four kilometres of track by 1887. He suffered financially with the collapse of the boom , and when Norquay's government fell in1887 and he lost his own seat the following year ...
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