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Stephen P. H. Butler Leacock FRSC (30 December 1869 – 28 March 1944) was a Canadian teacher, political scientist, writer, and humourist. Between the years 1915 and 1925, he was the best-known English-speaking humourist in the world. [1]
- Humour
- Upper Canada College
- Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town, Arcadian Adventures With the Idle Rich, My financial career
24 de mar. de 2024 · Stephen Leacock (born Dec. 30, 1869, Swanmore, Hampshire, Eng.—died March 28, 1944, Toronto, Ont., Can.) was an internationally popular Canadian humorist, educator, lecturer, and author of more than 30 books of lighthearted sketches and essays.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
17 de jun. de 2010 · Stephen Butler Leacock, FRSC, humorist, author, academic (born 30 December 1869 in Swanmore, England; died 28 March 1944 in Toronto, ON). Stephen Leacock was the English-speaking world’s best-known humorist between 1915 and 1925.
Learn about Stephen Leacock, a Canadian humorist, writer, and political scientist who was widely read in the early 1900s. Explore his novels, stories, poems, letters, and texts on this web page.
Stephen Butler Leacock (Swanmore, Hampshire, 30 de dezembro de 1869 — Toronto, 28 de março de 1944) foi um escritor e economista anglo-canadense
- Canadá, Reino Unido da Grã-Bretanha e Irlanda
- Stephen Butler Leacock, 30 de dezembro de 1869, Hampshire
- 28 de março de 1944 (74 anos), Toronto
Stephen P. H. Butler Leacock, FRSC, was a Canadian teacher, political scientist, writer, and humorist. Between the years 1915 and 1925, he was the best-known English-speaking humorist in the world. He is known for his light humour along with criticisms of people's follies.
Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town is a sequence of stories by Stephen Leacock, first published in 1912. It is generally considered to be one of the most enduring classics of Canadian humorous literature. The fictional setting for these stories is Mariposa, a small town on the shore of Lake Wissanotti.
