George Ade: Collected Works (illustrated):

by George Ade

Works Included:

Ade's Fables
Fables In Slang
Knocking The Neighbors
More Fables
People You Know
The Slim Princess

About Author:

George Ade (February 9, 1866 – May 16, 1944) was an American writer, newspaper columnist, and playwright.

770 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 11, 2014

About the author

George Ade (February 9, 1866 – May 16, 1944) was an American writer, newspaper columnist, and playwright.

Ade's literary reputation rests upon his achievements as a great humorist of American character during an important era in American history: the first large wave of migration from the countryside to burgeoning cities like Chicago, where, in fact, Ade produced his best fiction. He was a practicing realist during the Age of (William Dean) Howells and a local colorist of Chicago and the Midwest. His work constitutes a vast comedy of Midwestern manners and, indeed, a comedy of late 19th-century American manners. In 1915, Sir Walter Raleigh, Oxford professor and man of letters, while on a lecture tour in America, called George Ade "the greatest living American writer."

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