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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... their publication . In fact , we begin with a posthumously published chapter of autobiography describing his childhood as a boy brought from England to a farm in Ontario . Following this is 16 ON THE FRONT LINE OF LIFE.
... their publication . In fact , we begin with a posthumously published chapter of autobiography describing his childhood as a boy brought from England to a farm in Ontario . Following this is 16 ON THE FRONT LINE OF LIFE.
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... begin to write seriously about his youth , but his story evolved as he recounted it in the four essays included in this book . In his 1936 essay " I'll Stay in Canada , " Leacock described his father's and brothers ' migration to the ...
... begin to write seriously about his youth , but his story evolved as he recounted it in the four essays included in this book . In his 1936 essay " I'll Stay in Canada , " Leacock described his father's and brothers ' migration to the ...
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... begin . The biographies of vir- tually all our great men for three or four generations show them as coming from the farm . The location of the “ old home farm " was any- where from Nova Scotia to out beyond Iowa , but in its essence and ...
... begin . The biographies of vir- tually all our great men for three or four generations show them as coming from the farm . The location of the “ old home farm " was any- where from Nova Scotia to out beyond Iowa , but in its essence and ...
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... begin it at three years old to get the feel for it . — There were two teachers , a man teacher and a lady teacher , and it was all plain and decent and respectable , and the education first class , away ahead of the dame - school stuff ...
... begin it at three years old to get the feel for it . — There were two teachers , a man teacher and a lady teacher , and it was all plain and decent and respectable , and the education first class , away ahead of the dame - school stuff ...
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