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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... round and round as slowly as you like for thirty - six sessions --- college calling in the Autumn , students and co - eds and Introduction 23.
... round and round as slowly as you like for thirty - six sessions --- college calling in the Autumn , students and co - eds and Introduction 23.
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... 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.
... 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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... round our farm was new in the sense that forty years before it was unbroken wilderness and old in the sense that farm settlers , when they began to come , had come in quickly . Surveyors had marked out roads . The part of the bush that ...
... round our farm was new in the sense that forty years before it was unbroken wilderness and old in the sense that farm settlers , when they began to come , had come in quickly . Surveyors had marked out roads . The part of the bush that ...
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... round to beat out the shower of sparks that fell in the stubble fields .... This country around Lake Simcoe ( we were four miles to the south of it and out of the sight of it ) , beautiful and fertile as it is , had never been settled ...
... round to beat out the shower of sparks that fell in the stubble fields .... This country around Lake Simcoe ( we were four miles to the south of it and out of the sight of it ) , beautiful and fertile as it is , had never been settled ...
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... round with clapboard , and then someone else had added three rooms stuck along the front with more clapboard , effectually keeping all the sunlight out . Even towards the sunset there were no windows , only the half glass top of a side ...
... round with clapboard , and then someone else had added three rooms stuck along the front with more clapboard , effectually keeping all the sunlight out . Even towards the sunset there were no windows , only the half glass top of a side ...
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