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 Library edition is an unabridged reprint of the
complete original text.