The Stephen Leacock Picture Book

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Width:  8.25  Inches
Height:  10.25  Inches
Pages:  96
Format:  Paperback
Publication Date:  January 1, 1999
Illustrations:  None
Publisher:  Dundurn Press

Description

This new bok is a pictorial treasure, tracing the life of Canada‘s first and foremost man of letters, a legendary teacher and a world-renowned humourist. More than one hundred photographs are reproduced, most drawn from the archives of the Stephen Leacock Museum, housed in the Leacock estate, The Old Brewery Bay in Orillia, Ontario, and published here for the first time. The rest are portraits by famed photographer Yousuf Karsh.

In this exclusive collection, we follow Stephen Leacock from his birth in England through his upbringing in Canada and his emergence as an internally acclaimed author and humourist. We see the author on formal occasions and in lighter moments, and we become engrossed in the world that inspired the stories the world has come to love.

Author

James A. “Pete” McGarvey is a retired radio journalist who led the movement in the 1950s to acquire and rstore the Leacock summer home in Orillia. His first-hand account of that venture, The Old Brewery Bay: A Leacockian Tale, was published in 1994 by Dundurn Press. “Pete” McGarvey, long active in Toronto radio, now lives in Orillia and serves as 1998 chair of the Stephen Leacock Museum.

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