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Biography of Stephen (Butler) Leacock
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Stephen Leacock is the first immortal in the ranks of Canadian humorists, and even in his lifetime his popularity and reputation were international. His work has become a touchstone for some types of comic writing, even though modern readers and...


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Stephen Leacock Quotes
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Stephen Leacock (December 30, 1869 – March 28, 1944) was a British-Canadian writer and economist. Sourced Special Correspondence. I learn from a very high authority, whose name I am not at liberty to mention, (speaking to me at a place which I am not...


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Stephen Leacock Information
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Stephen Butler Leacock, Ph.D , FRSC (30 December 1869 – 28 March 1944) was a Canadian writer and...


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Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada
Stephen Leacock. Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town.(Book Review)
03/22/2003: 1,038 words, approx. 4 pages
Ed. Carl Spadoni. Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview Press, 2002. 321 pp.; $12.95 (paperbound). ISBN 1 55 IIII 780. Broadview Press is to be commended for issuing this critical edition of Stephen Leacock's landmark work, Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town, meticulously edited by...
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Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada
Carl Spadoni. An e-Bibliography of Stephen Leacock.(Book review)
03/22/2007: 816 words, approx. 3 pages
Carl Spadoni. An e-Bibliography of Stephen Leacock. 2nd ed. Shelburne, Ont.: The Battered Silicon Dispatch Box, 2004. $20.00. ISBN 1552465888. In 1998, when Toronto's ECW Press published Carl Spadoni's bibliography of Stephen Leacock in an edition of 500 copies, reviewers hailed it...
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Today in history - April 21
4/21/2007: 485 words, approx. 2 pages
Today is Saturday, April 21, the 111th day of 2007. There are 254 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On April 21, 1789, John Adams was sworn in as the first vice president of the United States.On this date:In 1649, the Maryland Toleration Act,...
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Into the Woody
6/19/2007: 553 words, approx. 2 pages
MERE ANARCHYBy Woody Allen Random House, 160 pages, $21.95 THE INSANITY DEFENSE: THE COMPLETE PROSE By Woody Allen Random House, 342 pages, $15.95 Like every other kind of writer, humorists go in and out of fashion. Nobody seems to read Stephen Leacock anymore,...
 


Criticism and Essays
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Critical Review by Will Cuppy
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In the following review of The Iron Man and the Tin Woman, With Other Such Futurities, Cuppy remarks that the tales contain a great deal of satiric intent but that they allow for serious thinking between laughs.


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