Мемориальная медаль Стивена Ликока (лауреаты) — 72 книги

A collection of humorous essays about summer holidays in the Georgian Bay area.

Paul Hiebert’s critical biography of the wholly mythical but irrepressible and irresistible Sarah Binks, “the Sweet Songstress of Saskatchewan,” who gave her life to poetry and died a martyr to the muse, is a hilarious analysis of her career and influences, along with a memorable selection of the poet's tenderest, most inspiring writings.

This masterpiece of satire won the 1947 Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour.

Paul Hiebert’s critical biography of the wholly mythical but irrepressible and irresistible Sarah Binks, “the Sweet Songstress of Saskatchewan,” who gave her life to poetry and…

Private Thomas Leadbeater Turvey is nobody’s idea of a capable recruit. Shifted from regimental pillar to post, Turvey tries and fails at every odd job in the army with a remarkable genius for mishap.

A casualty before he has a chance to see action, Turvey watches the maimed and dying return from the front; thus Earle Birney’s comic masterpiece becomes an unforgettable indictment of war.

Turvey won the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour in 1949.


From the Hardcover edition.

Private Thomas Leadbeater Turvey is nobody’s idea of a capable recruit. Shifted from regimental pillar to post, Turvey tries and fails at every odd job in the army with a…

Biographical novel of a bike trip through Europe.

Aunt Belle, who took care of the family during father's frequent absences, is a goodhearted, hardworking and altogether sympathetic character. But her almost pathological sensitiveness, her inability to be comfortable in the face of any variations from the standard rules of social deportment make her an easy foil for her sister-in-law Emily. Emily too is a goodhearted soul--but a rule breaker. She smokes in public and she sees no reason why the visiting Anglican rector should not, on a warm summer's day, be served his tea out-of-doors in the vegetable garden--even though the outhouse is in view and Uncle Harry is disposed to make rather frequent use of it.


The people who were closest to the children are warm, interesting, entertaining personalities. They are supported by a number of lesser--but no less entertaining--members of the cast: a bibulous piano teacher, a thoroughly understanding and somehow pathetic grade school teacher, a parrot given to ribald expletive, a band of Total Immersionists--and a fully varied assortment of good and not so good schoolmates and playmates.


Miss Hilliard writes of her girlhood with warmth, humour and nostalgic enthusiasm.

Aunt Belle, who took care of the family during father's frequent absences, is a goodhearted, hardworking and altogether sympathetic character. But her almost pathological…

A British war bride tries to deal with life in a Quebec mining town.

Winner of the 1954 Leacock Medal for Humour

The following announcement appeared in the Salterton Evening Bellman: "Professor and Mrs Walter Vambrace are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter, Pearl Veronica, to Solomon Bridgetower Esq, son of...". Although the malice that prompted this false engagement notice was aimed at three people only - Solly Bridgetower, Pearl Vambrace, and Gloster Ridley, the anxiety-ridden local newspaper editor - before the leaven of malice had ceased to work it had changed permanently, for good or ill, the lives of many citizens of Salterton. This is the second novel in The Salterton Trilogy (which also includes Tempest-Tost and A Mixture of Frailties)

The following announcement appeared in the Salterton Evening Bellman: "Professor and Mrs Walter Vambrace are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter, Pearl Veronica,…

The author, in introducing this fourth book of humorous pieces, admits "It wouldn't be seemly for me to say that there's a laugh on every page (on the average, they tend to bunch up here and there). But I think I can safely promise that the pages that follow represent the sort of light reading material being printed in Canada circa 1955."
Most of the articles collected here appeared originally in The Vancouver Province, New Liberty or Saturday Night. Two were talks for the C.B.C

The author, in introducing this fourth book of humorous pieces, admits "It wouldn't be seemly for me to say that there's a laugh on every page (on the average, they tend to bunch…

Girdle me a Globe is intended for to be a cheerful assortment of do's and don't's for the traveller - in particular for the globe-trotter.

A random collection of satirical essays, rude remarks, used anecdotes, thumbnail sketches, ancient wheezes, old nostalgias, wry comments, limp doggerel, intemperate recipes, vagrant opinions, and crude drawings.

... a lively mixture of brisk, opinionated prose and poetry in the unique Berton style.

A random collection of satirical essays, rude remarks, used anecdotes, thumbnail sketches, ancient wheezes, old nostalgias, wry comments, limp doggerel, intemperate recipes,…

Based on the short stories that Canadian original W.O. Mitchell began publishing in the 1940s and more than 300 radio scripts created for broadcast on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's national radio airwaves between 1950 and 1958, Jake and the Kid has won a special place in the mythology of the Canadian Prairies. Mitchell didn't just conjure up life in the 1940s in the fictional community of Crocus, Saskatchewan. He made Jake Trumper and the unnamed Kid a part of Canadians' lives. They could laugh at Jake's homespun thoughts on everything from "wimmin" to the Riel Rebellion of 1885 (Jake claiming that he helped take care of "Looie" Riel) to Canadian heroes like Prime Minister Sir Wilfred Laurier (better known as "Wilf" to Jake). A gentle satire pervades Mitchell's evocative recreation of small-town life as seen through the eyes of a wide-eyed little boy and the hired man who becomes his hero. The stories were compiled in book form in 1961 and won Mitchell his first Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal. They still have the magic that captured the Canadian imagination for nearly two decades. --Jeffrey Canton

Based on the short stories that Canadian original W.O. Mitchell began publishing in the 1940s and more than 300 radio scripts created for broadcast on the Canadian Broadcasting…

It is 1916. Bartholomew Bandy, fourth-year medical student, decides that it is time to join the War. The prim young Canadian expects that he will have few problems remaining clean and virtuous. But he is aware that his bland, horse-like face drives people crazy, and that he has a certain tendency to be accident-prone. How will the war affect him, and vice versa? The realities of trench war at the front provide a contrasting backdrop for his adventures, as he blunders into contact with all sorts of people, both fictional and historical (the King, Lester Pearson, and Winston Churchill). Three Cheers For Me was first published in 1962, to wide critical acclaim. This expanded version first appeared in 1973, to launch the series now known as The Bandy Papers.

It is 1916. Bartholomew Bandy, fourth-year medical student, decides that it is time to join the War. The prim young Canadian expects that he will have few problems remaining clean…

This, for your amazement and enjoyment, is that strangest of all infernal regions, the real world of Richard J. Needham. It is a region inhabited by Bay Street belles with racy collections of motel matchfolders, by men divided strictly into classes according to their habits, by victims trampled to death in non-violent demonstrations, and other victims crowned with ketchup bottles for missing a subtle nuance in male-female understanding. However, no sketch map of these desolate parts would be meaningful without a knowledge of the urbane guide. He is both Virgil and Beatrice, and more; the contribution this one man has made to our appreciation of Toronto mores is incalculable. Yes, it was indeed Needham who discovered that Torontonians talking about moral values are thinking only of sex and liquor. He was also the first to publish the theory that girls enjoy being taken to expensive restaurants and given two Manhattans before lunch. Needham's proposition that women are human beings and that their feet hurt bears the same dazzling relationship to the undiscovered art of intersexual communication that the falling apple did to Newtonian physics. Most of the literary critics worth listening to agree that the best work done to rehabilitate the pun since Thomas Hood's time is by Richard J. Needham -- the very same Needham whose moral fables, with their refreshing scarcity of happy endings, have briskly demolished the obsolete structure of thought in many a sluggish mind. Though his wit is excellent, his anger is steely; though his fecund talent is divided into 187 parts, some of it is gall. And since he is a writer who understands about love, he also understands the proper value of proper hatred. But describing Richard J. Needham to those who haven't tasted him is much like describing water to a parched man. Open the gates of the book, enter the region he has created, and meet the guide himself -- irreverent, cultured, offensive, thoughtful, provocative, enjoyable, and unique.

This, for your amazement and enjoyment, is that strangest of all infernal regions, the real world of Richard J. Needham. It is a region inhabited by Bay Street belles with racy…

Now Canadians need no longer wait for the CBC to re-run recordings of Max Ferguson’s notorious radio shows (assuming that the tapes have not all been destroyed by court order). A full dose of his lunacy, depravity, and flagrant disregard for CBC management can now be enjoyed at any hour of the day or night simply by reading a copy of And Now… Here’s Max, his scandalous memoir of a life in broadcasting at the CBC.

Now Canadians need no longer wait for the CBC to re-run recordings of Max Ferguson’s notorious radio shows (assuming that the tapes have not all been destroyed by court order). A…