Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town

Stephen Leacock

101 pages
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Leacock's portrait of Mariposa, a sleepy lakeside town where a sinking steamboat, a church fire and a local election become small-town epics. Gentle, sharp and still one of the funniest books about local pride.

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