New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1942.

Nonsense Novels. London: John Lane, 1911.

Our Heritage of Liberty: Its Origin, Its Achievement, Its Crisis: A Book for War Time. London: John Lane, 1942.

Over the Footlights. Toronto: S.B. Gundy, 1923.

The Pursuit of Knowledge: A Discussion of Freedom and Compulsion in Education. New York: Liveright Publishing, 1934.

“Q”: A Farce in One Act (with Basil Macdonald). New York: S. French, 1915.

Short Circuits. Toronto: The Macmillan Company of Canada, 1928.

Too Much College; or, Education Eating Up Life. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1939.

The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice. New York: John Lane Company, 1920.

Wet Wit and Dry Humour: Distilled from the Pages of Stephen Leacock. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1931.

Winnowed Wisdom: A New Book of Humour. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1926.

Winsome Winnie, and Other New Nonsense Novels. Toronto: S.B. Gundy, 1920.

FILMS

The Awful Fate of Melpomenus Jones. National Film Board of Canada, 1983. 7 minutes, 48 seconds, colour, animated. Directed and animated by Gerald Potterton; voice and narration by Mavor Moore.

How We Kept Mother’s Day. National Film Board of Canada, 1994. 9 minutes, 53 seconds, colour, animated. Directed and animated by Eva Szasz; voice and narration by Brian Richardson.

Hoodoo McFiggin’s Christmas. National Film Board of Canada, 1995. 8 minutes, 38 seconds, colour, animated. Directed by Eva Szasz; voice and narration by Alan Maitland.

My Financial Career. National Film Board of Canada, 1962. Distributed by Sterling Educational Films. 6 minutes, 30 seconds, colour, animated. Directed by Gerald Potterton; animated by Gerald Potterton and Grant Munro; voice and narration by Stanley Jackson.

A NOTE ON THE TEXT

This Penguin Classics edition of Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town has been reset from its first Canadian edition, published by Bell and Cockburn in 1912.

Stephen Leacock began work on Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town in early 1912, after he’d been commissioned by the Montreal Star to write a series of connected pieces. The first of these appeared in the Star on February 17, with the series continuing into June on alternating Saturdays. For the book version, Leacock added a preface and reorganized some of the sketches; he also altered the names of various characters that were based on real people.