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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... seem dated , and some of his predictions were wrong . Modern readers will not like his patronizing references to Canadian Native peoples , immigrants , and the non - white peoples of the British Empire , and his attitude to women is ...
... seem dated , and some of his predictions were wrong . Modern readers will not like his patronizing references to Canadian Native peoples , immigrants , and the non - white peoples of the British Empire , and his attitude to women is ...
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... seem able to provide anything like a straightforward account of his boyhood . The picture that emerges is a life of ... seems to have had enough money to live comfortably until he died in 1940 . He did not drink and was a gentle person ...
... seem able to provide anything like a straightforward account of his boyhood . The picture that emerges is a life of ... seems to have had enough money to live comfortably until he died in 1940 . He did not drink and was a gentle person ...
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... seems no reason to question Leacock's story that E.P. lived comfortably in a monastery after his return to England , a family member says that he also had inherited money . ' The last we hear of him is an exchange of letters in 1926 ...
... seems no reason to question Leacock's story that E.P. lived comfortably in a monastery after his return to England , a family member says that he also had inherited money . ' The last we hear of him is an exchange of letters in 1926 ...
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... seems different when children realize that the geography - class teacher knows more than he does , and that Father sometimes drinks a little too much , and quarrels with Mother . " ( See page 250. ) Like all favoured children , Leacock ...
... seems different when children realize that the geography - class teacher knows more than he does , and that Father sometimes drinks a little too much , and quarrels with Mother . " ( See page 250. ) Like all favoured children , Leacock ...
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... seems to leap off the page . But they are also marked by a strong element of pathos , which Peter McArthur saw as the sign of the sensitive boy . “ Hoodoo McFiggin's Christmas " poignantly captures a minor tragedy that happens to nearly ...
... seems to leap off the page . But they are also marked by a strong element of pathos , which Peter McArthur saw as the sign of the sensitive boy . “ Hoodoo McFiggin's Christmas " poignantly captures a minor tragedy that happens to nearly ...
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