Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town - Penguin Modern Classics Edition

Affectionately combining both the idyllic and ironic, Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town is a colourful, imaginative, and thoroughly entertaining portrait of small town Ontario. This is Stephen Leacock at his best--now available as a Penguin Modern Classic. Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town , which first appeared as a newspaper serial, chronicles life in the fictional community of Mariposa, modelled on Orillia, Ontario, where Stephen Leacock spent many summers. It's a brilliant satire about small towns, small-town people, and small-town occurrences. Life in Mariposa is never dull or ordinary. It's a town full of eccentrics, where boats sent to rescue passengers from a sinking steamer have to be rescued themselves, where the leading citizen is a 280-pound illiterate saloonkeeper, and where a barber who stumbles into a fortune is heralded as a financial wizard.

Product details

• Authors: Stephen Leacock
• Publisher: Random House Canada
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2017
• EAN: 9780735252875
• ISBN: 978-0-7352-5287-5
• No. of pages: 208
• Dimensions: 131 mm x 201 mm x 15 mm
• Series: New Canadian Library; New Canadian Library; Penguin Modern Classics (Canada)
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fiction > Narrative literature > Contemporary literature (from 1945)