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Gelett Burgess

Born

in Boston, MA, The United States

January 30, 1866

Died

September 18, 1951

Genre

Children's, Humor and Comedy, Poetry

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Frank Gelett Burgess was an artist, art critic, poet, author and humorist. An important figure in the San Francisco Bay Area literary renaissance of the 1890s, particularly through his iconoclastic little magazine, The Lark, he is best known as a writer of nonsense verse, such as "The Purple Cow", and for introducing French modern art to the United States in an essay titled "The Wild Men of Paris." He was the author of the popular Goops books, and he coined the term "blurb." ...more

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	Goops and How to Be Them: A Manual of Manners for Polite Infants Inculcating Many Juvenile Virtues 4.17 avg rating — 226 ratings — published 1900 — 80 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	More Goops and How Not to Be Them 4.03 avg rating — 87 ratings — published 1903 — 58 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Master of Mysteries by Gelett Burgess, Leslie S. Klinger (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 3.68 avg rating — 72 ratings — published 1912 — 25 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Purple Cow! 3.28 avg rating — 50 ratings — published 1985 — 41 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Are You A Bromide? 3.87 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 1906 — 81 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Ghost-Extinguisher 3.41 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 1905 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Goop Tales 4.48 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 1904 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Goop Directory of Juvenile Offenders Famous for their Misdeeds and Serving as a Salutary Example for all Virtuous Children 3.72 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 1913	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Treasury of Goops: Timeless Manners for Every Generation by Gelett Burgess, Barbara Ross (Introduction), Diana Camille (Illustrator) 3.86 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2004 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Burgess Unabridged: A Classic Dictionary of Words You Have Always Needed by Gelett Burgess, Paul Dickson (Foreword) 4.64 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1914 — 33 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead”
― Gelett Burgess

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“There is work that is work and there is play that is play; there is play that is work and work that is play. And in only one of these lies happiness.”
― Gelett Burgess

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“I never saw a Purple Cow, I never hope to see one; But I can tell you, anyhow, I'd rather see than be one.”
― Gelett Burgess

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