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Unit 11: The Conjurers Revenge by Stephen Leacock

11.1.7 Screen Adaptations Notes

Two Leacock short stories have been adapted as National Film Board of Canada animated shorts
by Gerald Potterton: My Financial Career and The Awful Fate of Melpomenus Jones. Sunshine
Sketches, based on Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town, aired on CBC Television in 1952-1953; it
was the first Canadian broadcast of an English-language dramatic series, as it debuted on the
first night that television was broadcast in Toronto. In 2012, a screen adaptation based on Sunshine
Sketches of a Little Town was aired on CBC Television to celebrate both the 75th anniversary of
the CBC and the 100th anniversary of Leacock’s original collection of short stories. The recent
screen adaptation featured Gordon Pinsent as a mature Leacock.

11.1.8 Bibliography

Fiction

Literary Lapses (1910)
Nonsense Novels (1911)
Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town (1912)
Behind the Beyond (1913)

Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich (1914)
Moonbeams from the Larger Lunacy (1915)
Further Foolishness (1916)

Essays and Literary Studies (1916)
Frenzied Fiction (1918)
The Hohenzollerns in America (1919)
Winsome Winnie (1920)

My Discovery of England (1922)
College Days (1923)
Over the Footlights (1923)

The Garden of Folly (1924)
Winnowed Wisdom (1926)
Short Circuits (1928)

The Iron Man and the Tin Woman (1929)
The Dry Pickwick (1932)
Afternoons in Utopia (1932)

Hellements of Hickonomics in Hiccoughs of Verse Done in Our Social Planning Mill (1936)
Funny Pieces (1936)
My Discovery of the West (1937)
Model Memoirs (1938)

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