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" On the front line of life : "
selected, edited, and introduced by Alan Bowker.
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BL
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947910
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b702280
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| Main Entry
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Leacock, Stephen,1869-1944.
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On the front line of life : : Stephen Leacock : memories and reflections, 1935-1944 /\ selected, edited, and introduced by Alan Bowker.
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Toronto [Ont.] :: Dundurn Press,, ©2004.
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1 online resource (264 pages)
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1459721128
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: 1554882524
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: 9781459721128
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: 9781554882526
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155002521X
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9781550025217
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| Notes
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Selected essays.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-264).
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| Contents
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Table Of Contents; Preface; Introduction; Chronology; Leacock's Essays; 1. Life on the Old Farm (1944); 2. My Remarkable Uncle (1941); 3. The Struggle to Make Us Gentlemen (1941); 4. My Education and What I Think of It Now (1944); 5. Looking Back on College (1936); 6. On the Need for a Quiet College (1938); 7. Andrew Macphail (1938); 8. How Much Does Language Change? (1938); 9. From the Ridiculous to the Sublime (1935); 10. What Is Left of Adam Smith? (1935); 11. Through a Glass Darkly (1936); 12. So This Is Winnipeg (1937); 13. The Land of Dreams (1937); 14. I'll Stay in Canada (1936).
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In the last decade of his life, Leacock turned to writing informal essays that blended humour with a conversational style and ripened wisdom to address the issues he cared about most - education, literature, economics, Canada and its place in the world - and to confront the joys and sorrows of his own life. With an introduction that sets them in the context of his life, thoughts, and times, these essays reveal a passionate, intellegent, personal Leacock, against a backdrop of Depression and war, finding hope and conveying the timeless message that only the human spirit can bring social justice.
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Leacock, Stephen,1869-1944.
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Leacock, Stephen,1869-1944.
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Leacock, Stephen,1869-1944
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LITERARY COLLECTIONS-- Essays.
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814/.52
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PR9199.3.L367A6 2004eb
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Bowker, Alan.
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Stephen Leacock :memories and reflections, 1935-1944
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