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Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town
From: Canadian Encyclopedia
Date: 20020101
Author:NEIL BESNER
NEIL BESNER
Canadian Encyclopedia
01-01-2002
Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town
Author: NEIL BESNER
Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town , by Stephen LEACOCK (Toronto, New York, London, 1912), is a series of vignettes dramatizing the comedy of day-to-day life in Mariposa, a bustling and big-time small town on the shores of the magnificent Lake Wissanotti. Thrumming with self-importance, endowed with a solemnly quirky populace, Mariposa is modelled on ORILLIA , Ont; for generations of readers, it has also been the centre of Leacock's fondest and most amusing portrait of ...
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