Stephen Leacock: His Remarkable Life - Couverture souple

Moritz, Albert; Moritz, Theresa

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1550417371 ISBN 13 : 9781550417371

Editeur : Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 2004

Synopsis

Stephen Butler Leacock shares the stage with Dickens and Twain as one of the best-loved humorists in the English-speaking world. Author of such masterpieces as Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town and Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich, Leacock was a man of biting satire and joyous observation. One whose life straddled half the reign of Queen Victoria and half the twentieth century. He was also a professional economist whose Elements of Political Science outsold even his best received fiction during his lifetime.

Stephen Leacock: His Remarkable Life is the most comprehensive and thoroughly researched biography of this amazing man. Based on private letters, diaries, newspaper accounts and memoirs, this fully illustrated volume explores his personal and public lives, his amazing creative process and the impact he had as a writer, teacher and thinker. It alone will form the background for appreciating the source of Leacock's humour and its significance in his lifetime and ours.

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Albert Moritz and Theresa Moritz

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Fitzhenry & Whiteside
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1550417371
• ISBN 13: 9781550417371
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 200
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