Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town
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Canada’s answer to Mark Twain and Charles Dickens, Stephen Leacock was a master of humor and characterization. His endearing portrayals of tiny-town life in Ontario and his memorable characters place him in the company of Canada’s finest writers.
This Norton Critical Edition of Sunshine Sketches of a Small Town uses the text of the 1912 first edition, second impression, the only edition that takes into account the corrections made between impressions. It is accompanied by explanatory annotations and textual emendations.
“Backgrounds and Contexts” includes a concise excerpt on Sunshine Sketches from the leading Leacock biography, as well as a selection of contemporary reviews from Canada, Britain, and the United States.
“Criticism” is comprised of two sections. The first presents eight scholarly interpretations, by Desmond Pacey, Silver Donald Cameron, W. H. Magee, Ina Ferris, Beverly J. Rasporich, Frank Birbalsingh, Gerald Lynch, and Glenn Willmont, selected for their contribution to critical discussion of the novel. The second brings together responses to the novel by esteemed Canadian novelists Robertson Davies, Guy Vanderhaeghe, and Mordecai Richler.
A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included. .
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Nice book. But in this edition, there is no chapter title on each page, so it’s a small hard to track the chapters.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
Canadian humorist presents a winning portrait of a tiny town in North America in the early years of the 20th century, using the tiny town life focus to bring alive some fun commentary on the human condition in all-purpose and American sentiments in particular. A hilarious, engaging portrait.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
Leacock wrote in the introduction that Mariposa represented seventy or eighty different towns throughout Canada. The residents were composite characters of people he knew. Leacock did a fantastic job of building the town seem alive. I wished I were there for the picnics, the cruises on the lake and the poker games. The plots of vignettes were excellent. The writing was too cute sometimes. His classical references were over my public school education at times. The characters were drawn honestly well. What the leader did very well was the throw away descriptions of the characters. He would nearly insult the characters he was describing in such endearing terms that I immediately felt drawn to the character.
Leacock was incredible talent. The book wasn’t deep, but it was a fun, enjoyable ride down memory lane.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
Leacock’s observations about people and community are devastatingly accurate and wonderfully recognizeable. The narrator captures the posturings and cozy delusions of tiny town life with the deadpan wit and irony of a Will Rogers for the nineties. The emperor stands there completely undressed and yet just as we turn to gloat with our fellow bystanders we feel the draft that alerts us to our own nakedness. Stephen Leacock, where have you been all my life?
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
This 1912 work uses sketches about the residents of a tiny Ontario lake town. The tone is mock-boosterish, giving rise to some sly comic moments. This is a wonderful parody of that can-do mentality that seems to infect us in North America. The work anticipates Lake Woebegone by some years, but has a distinctly Canadian feel. We’ve seen lots of works take mythical townspeople one by one, but I can reflect of few that do it as well and as simply as this one. This is a must read.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5