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	Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town is a sequence of stories by Stephen Leacock, first published in 1912.
		The fictional setting for these stories is Mariposa, a small town on the shore of Lake Wissanotti.
		Men from the town come to the rescue in an un-seaworthy lifeboat which sinks beneath them just as they are pulled onto the steamer, and the narrator earnestly remarks that this was "one of the smartest pieces of rescue work ever seen on the lake."
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sunshine_Sketches_of_a_Little_Town (401 words)

	Orillia, Ontario - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Village of Orillia was incorporated in 1867 (sharing the same birthyear as Canada), became a town in 1875, and was designated a city in 1969.
		In Stephen Leacock's 1912 Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town, Orillia was used as the basis for the fictional town known as "Mariposa", although Leacock stated that the fictional town could really be any town.
		The book was based on Leacock's experiences in the town and the city has since the book's release attempted to mimic the fictional location in as many ways as possible.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Orillia,_Ontario (1623 words)

	Studies in Canadian Literature
		Sunshine Sketches demonstrates that Leacock, whose writings emerge from a centre which is the confluence of the two traditions of humanism and nineteenth-century Toryism, believes that such an appreciation of the past is necessary to a full life, a life which develops organically rather than one which is radically cut off from its roots.
		Although the narrator of the sketches is distinct from the prefacer and the Envoi narrator, the distinctions blur again at the realization that all three share a similar style, especially in their use of inflated comparisons and an ironic voice of a purity that makes discriminations difficult.
		Sunshine Sketches at once partakes of, 'explodes' the conventions of, and is the artistic fulfilment of the local-colour literary tradition of the turn of the century (as the Sketches of the title implies).
	www.lib.unb.ca /Texts/SCL/bin/get.cgi?directory=vol9_2/&filename=Lynch.htm (15656 words)

	Studies in Canadian Literature
		In the final chapter of Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town, the narrator turns to a "you" who is simultaneously himself and the reader and offers this advice: "No, don't bother to look at the reflection of your face in the window-pane shadowed by the night outside.
		Sunshine Sketches is shaped as much by the urge to escape time as by the attempt to come to terms with its passage; Mariposa dissolves even as it defines the problem of the self.
		Throughout Sunshine Sketches, as both theme and shaping force of the narrative, the operation of the imagination is identified with fantasy, retreat, delusion.
	www.lib.unb.ca /Texts/SCL/bin/get.cgi?directory=vol3_2/&filename=Ferris.htm (3436 words)

	Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town Story (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		The inspiration of the book,--a land of hope and sunshine where little towns spread their square streets and their trim maple trees beside placid lakes almost within echo of the primeval forest,--is large enough.
		Mariposa is then a fierce, dangerous lumber town, calculated to terrorize the soul of a newcomer who does not understand that this also is only an appearance and that presently the rough-looking shanty-men will change their clothes and turn back again into farmers.
		At the side of the rectory, churchward, is a little grass lawn with low hedges and at the side of that two wild plum trees, that are practically always in white blossom.
	www.richread.com /02ssklt10.html (21576 words)

	Canadian Critical Editions
		Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town, by Stephen Leacock, edited by Gerald Lynch, ISBN 1896133320 (bound) ISBN 1896133347 (paperback).
		Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town began life in the Montreal Star in the first half of 1912 as a commissioned series of sketches about Canadian life, and is the only book Leacock wrote specifically for his Canadian readership.
		Leacock´s Sunshine Sketches speaks from inside the typical Canadian town of Mariposa, is coloured throughout by a more sophisticated humour, and ironically champions the values of the community.
	www.borealispress.com /canadiancriticaleditions.html (2806 words)

	Amazon.com: Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town: Books: Stephen Leacock,Wesley Bates (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		The Train to Mariposa," where he recounts traveling back to the town after being away for years, with all of the attendant emotions that brings as recognizable landmarks come into view and the traveler realizes that his little town is the same as when he left it years before.
		I suspect there is a historical importance to "Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town." These writings first appeared in 1912, a time when many people living in the bigger Canadian cities still remembered life in a small town.
		Canadian humorist presents a winning portrait of a small town in North America in the early years of the 20th century, using the small town life focus to bring alive some fun commentary on the human condition in general and American sentiments in particular.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0771050011?v=glance (2385 words)

	Arcadian Adventures With the Idle Rich
		It was published two years after SUNSHINE SKETCHES OF A LITTLE TOWN (1912), and numerous parallels between the two books in overall structure and detail make it a companion piece.
		The short story cycle portrays the full flowering in a large, unnamed American city (actually based on Montréal) of the seeds of corrupt materialism and individualism already detected in smalltown Mariposa.
		Unlike Sunshine Sketches, Arcadian Adventures shows sympathy not for those it satirizes but only for their hapless victims.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0011655 (231 words)

	NYRB: Stephen Leacock (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		Stephen Leacock (1869—1944) was born in Hampshire, England, but grew up in a small town in Ontario, one of eleven children.
		In 1906, he composed a textbook, Elements of Political Science, which was used throughout the world, and in 1910 the publication of Literary Lapses, a collection of humorous magazine pieces, brought him fame as a comic author.
		Thereafter, Leacock wrote prolifically, gaining international popularity with such works as Nonsense Novels (1911), Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town (1912), and Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich (1914), as well as biographies of his literary heroes, Charles Dickens and Mark Twain.
	www.nybooks.com /nyrb/authors/10776 (225 words)

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		Leacock leaves little doubt that the polling-day results of his fictional parliamentary race will prove of profound consequence.
		On a certain level Stark does a fair job translating Leacock for the stage, taking what is essentially a descriptive, observational work with few quotes, and fashioning it into a collision of dialogues and costumes; and, of course, recasting long-forgotten details of Dominion political life into the present American tense.
		The rest of the 15-member ensemble portray a town of caricatures — a holy rolling, teetotaling preacher lady (Lynn Wanlass), whose possibly gay brother (Paul Messinger) is being groomed by the main belligerents as the third-party candidate; his ex-hooker roommate (Kathleen Gati); and an Irish newspaper editor (Liam Tuohy), to name a few.
	www.laweekly.com /ink/printme.php?eid=55887 (978 words)

	Orillia, Ontario, Canada - Travel Photos by Galen R Frysinger, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
		His book, “Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town” was produced from these observations of his home town.
		Leacock was head of the department of Political Science and Economics at McGill University in Montreal, and became a world famous author and lecturer.
		The little boy who immigrated to Canada from England at the age of 6, upon his retirement from McGill, had to turn down several offers of other appointments.
	www.galenfrysinger.com /orillia_ontario.htm (469 words)

	The Globe and Mail: What they're reading
		Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town by Stephen Leacock is a story about the town of Orillia, well it is actually Mariposa but that is not a real town.
		There is a little story in here about a bank mystery.
		This story is about Stephen Leacock's experiences when he walked into a bank and he was going to put a small amount of money into an account and he had to open one up.
	www.theglobeandmail.com /servlet/story/RTGAM.20030808.bkread0808biz/BNStory/Business (465 words)

	Around The Lakes - Diver Magazine May 1999
		Mariposa Belle, the fabled steamship of Stephen Leacock's Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town plied the waters of Lake Simcoe60 kms north of the city of Torontoat the turn of the century.
		Originally built as the schooner Enterprise in 1868, she was converted to a dual-engine steam powered ship in 1883 and was a popular fixture on the lake.
		She was refloated, and sailed to the Orillia area where she was stripped and allowed to sink to the bottom of the lake.
	divermag.com /archives/may99/around_lks_may99.html (1269 words)

	Stephen Leacock dies - Unforgettable Moments - CBC Archives
		During his heyday, Stephen Leacock — professor and author of 60 books — was the best-selling English-language humorist in the world.
		Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town, published in 1912.
		Sketches was a fondly satirical portrait of Orillia, Ont., where Leacock spent many summers.
	archives.cbc.ca /IDC-1-68-645-3540-20/that_was_then/arts_entertainment/stephen_leacock_obit (589 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		What has made it last is less Leacock's famously genial humour than his underlying satirical edge: his affection for his characters is matched by his unease at the unforgiving, materialist world they struggle against.
		Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town is one of Canada’s classic works of literature, and perhaps its most complex work of satire.
		A series of linked stories chronicling life in the fictional community of Mariposa--modelled on Orillia, Ontario--Sunshine Sketches gently mocks Canadian small-town life in a manner that is as dead-on as it is humourous.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0771099843 (2009 words)

	Mnemographia Canadensis - Essay 20 - Defining the Country: Memory and Nationhood in the Canadian Museum of Civilization
		—Stephen Leacock, Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town (1912) (64).
		In the chapter of Stephen Leacock’s Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town entitled "The Knights of Pythias," the narrator relates a conversation between Dr. Gallagher and Dean Drone, in which they offer differing historical accounts of the land that the Mariposa Belle passes on its way to the Indian’s Island.
		The staff of the CMC studied museums, heritage institutions and theme-parks from around the world before designing the new national museum; it is not, then, original in the techniques that it offers, but in their particular combination and effect.
	www.uwo.ca /english/canadianpoetry/architexts/mnemographia_canadensis_2/essay_20.htm (10480 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Literary Lapses (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town by Stephen Leacock (Author), Jack Hodgins (Author)
		Leacock exaggerates in many of his sketches, but that aspect of each story fits in perfectly with the separate ideas he presents.
		I recommend this novel to anyone who agrees that life should be lived to the absolute fullest, taking all chances and having a good time.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0771099835 (731 words)

	Bookninja's 2004 Political Picks - QuickTopic free message board hosting
		Liberal: School principal James Digby ("security from actual want, but not security from the nagging little worries of not quite enough money").
		Conservative: Doctor Peter Svarich ("his need for respect and attention and his distrust of it when it was given him").
		NDP: School teacher Ruth Thompson ("ain't been in the town two months an' she's tryin' to run things").
	www.quicktopic.com /27/H/4UN2ZuVEZZmCe (514 words)

	BookkooB: Sunshine
		Sunshine on Putty: The Golden Age of British Comedy, from "The Big Night Out" to "The Office"
		Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town (Prion Humour Classics S.)
		Sunshine on Putty: The Golden Age of British Comedy from "Vic Reeves" to "The Office"
	www.bookkoob.co.uk /title/sunshine.htm (134 words)

	Broadview Press: Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town
		Set in the fictional landscape of Mariposa on the shores of Lake Wissanotti in Missinaba County, Leacock’s Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town is an affectionate satire of small town life.
		This series of humourous connected sketches about graft, high finance, religion, love and romance is, on one level, an intimate, comic portrait of town life and local politics.
		On another level, the narrative is a powerful commentary on the workings of community values and on Canada’s place within the British Empire.
	www.broadviewpress.com /bvbooks.asp?bookid=541 (356 words)

	The Greatest Literature of All Time - Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town
		We have to keep pointing to Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town and showing how kindly the townsfolk are satirized, compared to Twain's barbs in Tom Sawyer or Huckleberry Finn.
		In Sunshine Sketches Leacock is a character himself throughout.
		We gather that while the town's financial whiz, Jefferson Thorpe, the barber, is rising in the eyes of his customers (and the narrator) to the level of the Rockefellers, he's really being swindled by big-city crooks.
	www.editoreric.com /greatlit/books/Sunshine.html (602 words)

	Virtual Essays - Free Essays on Sunshine sketches of a little town termpapers and book reports!
		Sunshine sketches of a little town From Research Assistance
		FREE ESSAYS Affectionately combining both the idyllic and the ironic, Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town, is Stephen Leacock's most beloved books."(back of book.) Stephen Leacock's, Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town, is a satirical novel about a town and the people that live in it.
		The little town, Leacock titled, Mariposa, is a universal town.
	www.virtualessays.com /viewpaper/3451.html (220 words)

	Showing up to Work Hammered
		When I was a child, the earlier a mother could get her little one into school and out of her hair, the better.
		I don’t know if I reminded them of their granddaughters, or if it was my talent for making small-talk that endeared me to them.
		I guess the manager wasn’t in that night and none of the little old ladies ratted on me, which makes me wonder if they all came from alcoholic families, all that enabling.
	www.collegestories.com /storyview.aspx?sid=3558 (1693 words)

	Gordon Kirkland At Large - Gordon Kirkland At Large Archives at Zinester (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		It was the home of Stephen Leacock and the setting for Mariposa, the town in his book, Sunshine Sketches of A Little Town.
		Every couple of weeks I receive a letter or an email from a reader who is concerned that my writing might be leading Canadian youth down the path of sin, depravity, and poor spelling.
		I'm more likely to be recognized in the United States than on the streets of my own home town, where I'm known simply as Diane Kirkland's husband.
	archives.zinester.com /5682/45897.html (954 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		His best-known work, Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town, provides subtle insights into Leacock’s delightful character and interests.
		The fictional town of Mariposa was modelled on the real Ontario town of Orillia.
		Apart from Sunshine Sketches, his best-known work is, perhaps, Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich.
	collections.ic.gc.ca /heirloom_series/volume4/286-289.htm (797 words)

	Stephen Leacock - Biography and Works (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		Stephen Butler Leacock (1869-1944), Canadian author, will long be remembered for his best-selling book Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town, (1912) as well as the numerous awards and honours he received during his illustrious lifetime as author, professor, lecturer and humourist.
		Stephen Butler Leacock was born on 30 December, 1869, at Swanmore, Hampshire, England, the third of eleven children to Peter Leacock and Agnes Emma (née Butler).
		Based on his many summers spent in Orillia, Ontario and other childhood experiences, it was very popular in Canada, the United States and England.
	www.online-literature.com /stephen-leacock (739 words)

	A Bibliography of Stephen Leacock by Theresa Moritz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		But the buzz these two groups have been able to generate over the past ten years would be drowned out easily by Dean Drone's snorings, I mean musings, in the garden over the untranslatable wonders of Greek.
		Finally, as Spadoni's fascinating entries on individual books show, Sunshine Sketches far outshines the rest in volume of sales, number of editions, and consistent availability.
		One indication that Leacock has become, even for scholars, little more than a one-book wonder is that Gerald Lynch confined himself to commenting on only Sunshine Sketches and Arcadian Adventures in his study of the connections between Leacock's humour and his social theory.
	www.utpjournals.com /product/utq/691/leacock101.html (456 words)

	Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town Essays - Leacock's Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town
		Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town Essays - Leacock's Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town
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