Chandler Thomas Haliburton: 16 books

5 works of Thomas Chandler Haliburton Politician, judge, and author in the British Colony of Nova Scotia (1796-1865) This ebook presents a collection of 5 works of Thomas Chandler Haliburton. A dynamic table of contents allows you to jump directly to the work selected. Table of Contents:...

This book collection includes: The Clockmaker, The Attache (both volumes), and Nature and Human Nature. According to Wikipedia: "Thomas Chandler Haliburton (December 17, 1796 – August 27, 1865) was a politician, judge, and author in the British Colony of Nova Scotia. He was the first international...

Canadian novel, first published in 1836. According to Wikipedia: "Sam Slick is a character created in 1835 by Thomas Chandler Haliburton, a Nova Scotian judge and author. With his wry wit and Yankee voice, Sam Slick of Slicksville put forward his views on "human nature" in a regular...

Classic Canadian novel. Both volumes. According to Wikipedia: "Thomas Chandler Haliburton (December 17, 1796 August 27, 1865) was a politician, judge, and author in the British Colony of Nova Scotia. He was the first international best-selling author from what is now Canada and played a significant role in the history of Nova Scotia prior to its entry into Confederation."

Canadian novel, first published in 1855. According to Wikipedia: "Thomas Chandler Haliburton (December 17, 1796 August 27, 1865) was a politician, judge, and author in the British Colony of Nova Scotia. He was the first international best-selling author from what is now Canada and played a significant role in the history of Nova Scotia prior to its entry into Confederation."

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...

The profound creativity of Haliburton is evident from the thirty-three sketches that are presented in the book. With unparalleled humour and sarcasm on the literature attitudes and politics of that time this book established the author as a satirical humorist of international stature.

The following Sketches, as far as the twenty-first No. originally appeared in “THE NOVASCOTIAN” newspaper. The great popularity they acquired, induced the Editor of that paper, to apply to the Author for the remaining part of the series, and permission to publish the whole entire. This request having...

Sam Slick first appeared in a series of sketches in the NovaScotian during 1835 and 1836 and proved so popular that they were published in book form with additional stories in 1838. He is credited with coining such phrases as "the early bird gets the worm," "to get blood out of a stone,"...

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