Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town

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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 small-town life. Leacock's humour depends on his gift for creating a straight-faced storyteller, an earnestly deadpan narrator who cannot imagine what his readers are laughing about. Nowhere is this gift more apparent than in Leacock's warm but gently mocking scrutiny of both the foibles and pretensions of his Mariposan Canadians.

The making of a Canadian film based on Stephen Leacock's Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town.

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Author NEIL BESNER


Links to Other Sites
Stephen Leacock Museum
The Stephen Leacock Museum in Orillia, Ontario, is devoted to the life and literary works of one of Canada's most beloved writers.

Stephen Leacock: Humorist and Educator
This website is dedicated to Canada's quintessential humorist, Stephen Leacock. Features a bibliography, samples of his writing, audio clips, and analysis of some of his most popular stories. From Library and Archives Canada.

Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town
Read excerpts from "Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town" by Stephen Leacock. From Google.com.

CBC: Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town
Watch the film "Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town," which blends Stephen Leacock's own life with his literary creation. From the CBC website.

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