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Humorous, ironic, and sometimes cynical observations of life in 1915 from Canadian humourist Stephen Leacock.

A collection of short stories centering on Mariposa, a fictional Mid-West American turn-of-the-century town.

Cutter is determind to sabotage the sale of her family's dilapidated ancestral home. Her sister Ginny (in the midst of an affair with a professor) doesn't seem to care either way.

When her husband dies on the eve of their impending European vacation, housewife Emma Hanley watches her dreams of world travel vanish even as she becomes more immersed in the lives of her two livi