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  • People You Know

    by George Ade ...
    People You Know by George Ade is a witty and observant collection of sketches that captures the humor, quirks, and everyday behaviors of ordinary individuals navigating social life. With his signature sharpness and light comedic touch, Ade turns familiar situations and recognizable personalities into entertaining and insightful reflections on human nature. Each piece introduces a different ... Read more

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  • In Pastures New

    by George Ade ...
    In Pastures New by George Ade is a witty and engaging work of fiction that blends humor, social observation, and light satire to explore themes of change, ambition, and adaptation. Known for his clever use of language and sharp insight into human behavior, Ade presents a series of entertaining situations that reflect the challenges and opportunities that come with new beginnings. The narrative ... Read more

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  • The Slim Princess

    by George Ade ...
    The Slim Princess by George Ade is a humorous and satirical novel that playfully examines themes of beauty standards, cultural expectations, romance, and social perception. Written with Ade's signature wit and lighthearted style, the story blends comedy and social commentary in a narrative that both entertains and gently critiques societal norms. The novel centers on a princess whose physical ... Read more

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  • Ade's Fables

    by George Ade ...
    Ade's Fables by George Ade is a witty and engaging collection of short moral tales that blend humor, satire, and keen social observation. Known for his sharp eye and playful use of language, Ade reimagines the traditional fable form through the lens of modern life, creating stories that are both entertaining and insightful. Each fable presents a brief narrative drawn from everyday situations, ... Read more

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  • Fables in Slang

    by George Ade ...
    Fables in Slang by George Ade is a witty and inventive collection of short moral tales that reimagines traditional fables in the language and style of everyday American life. First published in the late nineteenth century, the book uses humor, satire, and colloquial speech to deliver sharp observations about human behavior, ambition, and social customs. Each fable presents a simple story structure ... Read more

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  • More Fables

    by George Ade ...
    More Fables by George Ade is a delightful collection of humorous and satirical tales that continues the author's celebrated tradition of using short, engaging narratives to explore human nature and social behavior. With his trademark wit and sharp observational style, Ade transforms everyday situations into memorable stories filled with irony, humor, and insight. Each piece presents a concise ... Read more

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  • People You Know

    by George Ade ...
    In "People You Know," George Ade presents a collection of sharp, witty sketches that encapsulate the quirks and idiosyncrasies of American society at the turn of the 20th century. Written in Ade's signature satire-laden prose, the book captures the essence of everyday life through the lens of social and cultural commentary. Each vignette serves as a mirror reflecting the characteristics of various ... Read more

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  • 7 Best Short Stories by George Ade

    by George Ade, August Nemo ...
    Series Book 84 - 7 best short stories
    George Ade's greatest recognition came with Fables in Slang (1899), a national best-seller that was followed by a weekly syndicated fable and by 11 other books of fables. The fables, which contained only a little slang, were, rather, examples of the vernacular. The critic August Nemo selected seven short stories from this essential author of American literature: The Fable of the Preacher Who Flew ... Read more

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  • Fables in Slang

    by George Ade ...
    Series series George Ade Collection
    Dodo Collections brings you another classic from George Ade ‘Fables in Slang.’‘Fables in Slang’ was first published in 1899. In his unique "Fables in Slang," which purveyed not so much slang as the American colloquial vernacular, Ade pursued an effectively genial satire notable for its scrupulous objectivity. Ade's regular practice in the best fables is to present a little drama incorporating ... Read more

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  • The Ultimate Christmas Collection

    150+ authors & 400+ Christmas Novels, Stories, Poems, Carols & Legends

    by George Ade, Louisa May Alcott, Raymond Macdonald Alden, Cecil Frances, James Allen, Hans Christian Andersen, Alfred Austin, Mary Austin, Ralph Henry Barbour, L. Frank Baum, William Cox Bennett, William Blake, Edmund Bolton, Anne Brontë, Elbridge Brooks, Heywood Broun, Frances Browne, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Oliver Bell Bunce, Robert Burns, Ellis Parker Butler, William Wilfred Campbell, William Canton, Willa Cather, Thomas Chatterton, Anton Chekhov, G. K. Chesterton, John Clare, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Eliza Cook, Susan Coolidge, François Coppée, Richard Crashaw, F. Marion Crawford, Mary Stewart Cutting (Cutting, Mary Stewart) [A01, Aubrey De Vere, Margaret Deland, Emily Dickinson, Charles Dickens, Mary Mapes Dodge, Alfred Domett, John Donne, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Arthur Conan Doyle, William Drummond, Henry Van Dyke, Juliana Horatia Ewing, Anne P. L. Field, Eugene Field, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Richard Watson Gilder, Washington Gladden, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Nikolai Gogol, The Brothers Grimm, Kenneth Grahame, Elizabeth Harrison, Thomas Hardy, Bret Harte, Frances Ridley Havergal, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Reginald Heber, Felicia Hemans, George Herbert, O. Henry, Oliver Herford, Robert Herrick, T. A. Hoffmann, Florence Holbrook, Thomas Hood, William Dean Howells, Ben Jonson, Washington Irving, John Keble, James Joyce, Rudyard Kipling, Selma Lagerlöf, Winifred Kirkland, Andrew Lang, Stephen Leacock, James Weber Linn, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, H. P. Lovecraft, James Russell Lowell, George MacDonald, Charles Mackay, William Topaz McGonagall, Alice Duer Miller, Emily Huntington Miller, Olive Thorne Miller, John Milton, S. Weir Mitchell, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Clement C. Moore, William Morris, Mary Noailles Murfree, Robert Fuller Murray, John Mason Neale, Thomas Nelson Page, Elia W. Peattie, Marjorie Pickthall, Beatrix Potter, Katharine Pyle, Arthur Quiller-Couch, James Whitcomb Riley, Mary Darby Robinson, Edward Payson Roe, Christina Rossetti, Damon Runyon, Saki, Walter Scott, Edmund Hamilton Sears, William Shakespeare, Nora Archibald Smith, Robert Southwell, Robert Louis Stevenson, Frank Stockton, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Algernon Charles Swinburne, John Addington Symonds, John Banister Tabb, Booth Tarkington, Nahum Tate, Sara Teasdale, Lord Alfred Tennyson, William Makepeace Thackeray, Edward Thring, Henry Timrod, Leo Tolstoy, Anthony Trollope, Thomas Tusser, Mark Twain, Katharine Tynan, Henry Vaughan, Isaac Watts, Charles Wesley, Anne Hollingsworth Wharton, Lucy Wheelock, John G. Whittier, Kate Douglas Wiggin, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Oscar Wilde, John Strange Winter, George Wither, William Wordsworth, William Butler Yeats, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, George Orwell, Agatha Christie, F. Scott Fitzgerald, H.P. Lovecraft, Virginia Woolf, Edgar Allan Poe ...
    If you were looking for the definitive Christmas anthology, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it! This book is everything you want Christmas to be — loving, warm and celebratory. Timeless and adorable, beautifully designed, "The Big Book of Christmas" is a great big stocky book — stuffed with novels, novellas, short stories, poems, carols and songs. Inside you'll find: · Novels, ... Read more

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  • 7 best short stories - Feel-Good Stories

    by George Ade, H. G. Wells, Anton Chekhov, T. S. Arthur, Oscar Wilde, O. Henry, Nathaniel Hawthorne, August Nemo ...
    Series Book 11 - 7 best short stories - specials
    Sometimes life can be discouraging and exhausting. For those moments there are stories that are heartwarming and give us the daily dose of joy and encouragement that we all need. Critic August Nemo selected seven short stories that will do good for your mood and your heart: - An Angel in Disguise by T.S. Arthur - The Selfish Giant by Oscar Wilde - The Magic Shop by H.G. Wells - Springtime a la ... Read more

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  • The Old-Time Saloon

    Not Wet - Not Dry, Just History

    by George Ade, Bill Savage ...
    A celebration of the nineteenth-century saloon, written with sly humor during Prohibition: "A gem for gentlemen and gentlewomen who enjoy a tipple."— Toronto StarDescribed by Luc Sante as "a distant ancestor of Rocky and Bullwinkle," George Ade was an early twentieth-century humorist beloved by many, even earning praise from H.L. Mencken. During the waning years of Prohibition, he wrote The Old ... Read more

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