Ade's Fables - Couverture souple

George Ade, Ade; George Ade

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1421839547 ISBN 13 : 9781421839547

Editeur : 1st World Library - Literary Society, 2007

Synopsis

Ambition came, with Sterling Silver Breast-Plate and Flaming Sword, and sat beside a Tad aged 5. The wee Hopeful lived in a Frame House with Box Pillars in front and Hollyhocks leading down toward the Pike. "Whither shall I guide you?" asked Ambition

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

“A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative.”

“After being turned down by numerous publishers, he decided to write for posterity.”

“Whom are you?" he asked, for he had attended business college.”

Move over Aesop. Brilliant humorous fables and anecdotes from the comic genius and author of The College Widow, In Pastures New, Knocking the Neighbors, and Fables in Slang.

In Ade's Fables, George Ade uses the literary vehicle of fables to deliver his observations on various topics including urbanization, education, sports, automobiles, salesmanship, the workingman's world, the shopkeeper, relationships and the dreams of youth. His view is that of a man who was born and raised in west Indiana farm country just after the Civil War, and who became a big city newspaper columnist, a successful playwright, world traveler and national celebrity. Sprinkled throughout Ade's fables are references to contemporary persons and events whose significance might escape the modern reader.

CONTENTS

The New Fable of the Private Agitator and What He Cooked Up

The New Fable of the Speedy Sprite

The New Fable of the Intermittent Fusser

The New Fable of the Search for Climate

The New Fable of the Father Who Jumped In

The New Fable of the Uplifter and His Dandy Little Opus

The New Fable of the Wandering Boy and the Wayward Parent

The New Fable of What Transpires After the Wind-up

The Dream That Came Out with Much to Boot

The New Fable of the Toilsome Ascent and the Shining Table-Land

The New Fable of the Aerial Performer, the Buzzing Blondine, and the Daughter of Mr. Jackson

The New Fable of Susan and the Daughter and the Granddaughter, and then Something Really Grand

Biographie de l'auteur

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. Ade's fiction dealt consistently with the ""little man,"" the common, undistinguished, average American, usually a farmer or lower middle class citizen. (He sometimes skewered women, too, especially women with laughable social pretensions. (Wikipedia)

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: 1st World Library - Literary Society
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1421839547
• ISBN 13: 9781421839547
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 156
• Éditeur: 1stworld Library
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible