Four Fables in Slang  by George Ade

64 pages, 6 illustrations
2 3/16"  x 1 11/16"

" Once upon a Time there was a slim Girl with a Forehead which was Shiny and  Prutuberant, like a Bartlett Pear. When asked to put something in an Autograph Album, she invariably wrote the Following, in a tall, dislocated Back-Hand:
         "Life is Real, Life is Earnest, And the Grave is not its Goal."
That's the kind of Girl she was."

George Ade was one of the most wildly popular comic writers in America at the turn of the century, and is today undeservedly forgotten. A country boy from Indiana, he wrote sweetly satiric essays, books, and plays about country people in a snappy and very American vernacular. This little volume has four of his best.

The book is bound in unbleached linen, and has a paper title on the front and spine.

This product was added to our catalog  February 27, 2011