Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Stephen Leacock
- First Published: 1912
- Type of Work: Short-story cycle
- Genres: Short fiction, Wit and humor, Sketch
- Subjects: Barbershops or barbers, Robbery or robbers, Small-town life, Business or business people, Heroes or heroism, Banks, bankers, or banking, Church or churches
- Locales: Canada
In his masterpiece Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town, Leacock's lifelong interests in economics and political science merge, resulting in a thematic unity not found in most of his other books. After a genial preface in which Leacock provides some autobiographical information—and in so doing prepares the reader for the narrative tone of naïveté mixed with sarcasm—the narrator, a fellow townsperson, establishes himself as the observer from whose point of view the reader is able to make a judgment about the characters.
The first of these is Mr. Josh Smith....
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