Stephen Leacock: Humour and Humanity

by Gerald Lynch, Gerald Lynch, Alan T. Davies

From the preface: "Stephen Leacock is still often regarded as a writer of lightweight amusements and unchallenging satire, as an author without an imaginative centre who lacked a vision of sufficient power and clarity to sustain a lifetime of serious writing. According to this view, which has been too easily received, Leacock squandered an early, promising talent (though he was in fact, middle-aged when he published Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773506527
• ISBN13: 9780773506527
• Release Date: November 1988
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 216 Pages