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The Clockmaker: The Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick of Slickville

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The Clockmaker: The Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick of Slickville - Haliburton, Thomas Chandler, and McDougall, Robert (Afterword by)
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Sam Slick of Slickville, Connecticut, is a Yankee clock-peddler who accompanies a visiting English gentleman on an unforgettable tour of early nineteenth-century Nova Scotia. His shrewd observations and witty commentaries make up the thirty-three sketches of The Clockmaker . First serialized in 1835 and 1836 and then published together in late 1836 in response to public demand, the sketches of The Clockmaker established Judge Thomas Chandler Haliburton as a satirical humorist of international stature. The New Canadian ...

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The Clockmaker: The Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick of Slickville 2007, New Canadian Library, Toronto, Canada

ISBN-13: 9780771096259

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The Clockmaker: The Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick of Slickville 1993, New Canadian Library, Toronto, Canada

ISBN-13: 9780771098888

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The Clockmaker: The Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick of Slickville 1965, New Canadian Library

ISBN-13: 9780771091063

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