Fables in Slang

Fables in Slang PDF Author: George Ade
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ISBN: 9781836570837
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Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Fables in Slang

Fables in Slang PDF Author: George Ade
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ISBN: 9781836570837
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Languages : en
Pages : 0

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The Old-Time Saloon

The Old-Time Saloon PDF Author: George Ade
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022641230X
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 227

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Originally published: New York: R. Long & R.R. Smith, 1931.

The Sultan of Sulu

The Sultan of Sulu PDF Author: George Ade
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Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 178

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Ross-Ade

Ross-Ade PDF Author: Robert C. Kriebel
Publisher: Purdue University Press
ISBN: 1557535221
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 408

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Dave Ross (1871-1943) and George Ade (1866-1944) were trustees, distinguished alumni and benefactors of Purdue University. Their friendship began in 1922 and led to their giving land and money for the 1924 construction of Ross-Ade Stadium, now a 70,000 seat athletic landmark on the West Lafayette campus. Their life stories date to 1883 Purdue and involve their separate student experiences and eventual fame. Their lives crossed paths with U.S. First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, Henry Ford, Amelia Earhart, and Will Rogers among others. Gifts or ideas from Ross or Ade led to creation of the Purdue Research Foundation, Purdue Airport, Ross Hills Park, and Ross Engineering Camp. They helped Purdue Theater, the Harlequin Club and more. Ade, renowned author and playwright, did butt heads with Purdue administrators at times long ago, but remains a revered figure. Ross's ingenious mechanical inventions of gears still steer millions of motorized vehicles, boats, tractors, even golf carts the world over.

Forty Modern Fables

Forty Modern Fables PDF Author: George Ade
Publisher: Copp, Clark Company
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Category : American wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 388

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In Pastures New

In Pastures New PDF Author: George Ade
Publisher: Musson
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Category : American wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 330

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The Oxford Companion to American Literature

The Oxford Companion to American Literature PDF Author: James David Hart
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press
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Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 920

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For more than half a century, James D. Hart's The Oxford Companion to American Literature has been an unparalleled guide to America's literary culture, providing one of the finest resources to this country's rich history of great writers. Now this acclaimed work has been completely revised and updated to reflect current developments in the world of American letters.For the sixth edition, editors James D. Hart and Phillip Leininger have updated the Companion in light of what has happened in American literature since 1982. To this end, they have revised the entries on such established authors as Saul Bellow, Norman Mailer, and Joyce Carol Oates, and they have added more than 180 new entries on novelists (T. Coraghessan Boyle, Tim O'Brien, Louise Erdrich, Don De Lillo), poets (Rita Dove, Weldon Kees), playwrights (Wendy Wasserstein, August Wilson), popular writers (Stephen King, Louis L'Amour), historians (James M. McPherson, David Herbert Donald, William Manchester), naturalists (Aldo Leopold, Edward Abbey), and literary critics (Camille Paglia, Richard Ellmann). In addition, the Companion boasts more women's, African-American, and ethnic voices, with new entries on such luminaries as Charlotte Perkins Gilman, M.F.K. Fisher, William Least Heat-Moon, Ursula Le Guin, and Oscar Hijuelos, among many others.These additions represent only some of the revisions for the new edition. Of course, the basic qualities of the Companion that readers have grown to know and love over the years are as superb as ever. With over 5,000 total entries, The Oxford Companion to American Literature reflects a dynamic balance between past and contemporary literature, surveying virtually every aspect of our national literature, from the Pulitzer Prize to pulp fiction, and from Walt Whitman to William F. Buckley, Jr. There are over 2,000 biographical profiles of important American authors (with information regarding their styles, subjects, and major works) and influential foreign writers as well as other figures who have been important in the nation's social and cultural history. There are more than 1,100 full summaries of important American novels, stories, essays, poems (with verse form noted), plays, biographies and autobiographies, tracts, narratives, and histories. The new edition provides historical background and astute commentary on literary schools and movements, literary awards, magazines, newspapers, and a wide variety of other matters directly related to writing in America. Finally, the book is thoroughly cross-referenced and features an extensive and fully updated index of literary and social history.Ranging from Captain John Smith to John Updike, and from Anne Bradstreet to Anne Rice, the sixth edition of The Oxford Companion to American Literature is up to date, accurate, and comprehensive, a delight for both the casual browser and the serious student.

Essays - Hilaire Belloc

Essays - Hilaire Belloc PDF Author: Hilaire Belloc
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 1473392462
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 56

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This classic volume contains a collection of essays written by Hilaire Belloc. Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc (1870–1953) was an Anglo-French historian and author, considered to be one of the most productive English writers of the early twentieth century. The essays cover a range of topics, and were originally published in other works, including “The Path to Rome” (1903) and “The Eye-Witness” (1908). Contents include: “The Fog”, “Ronsard”, “The Apprentice”, “Valmy”, “Barbary”, “The Second of November, 1902”, and “London River”. This collection is highly recommended for fans of Belloc’s work, and is not to be missed by the discerning collector. Many classic books such as this are becoming increasingly rare and expensive. We are republishing this book now in an affordable, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the author.

Short Story Index

Short Story Index PDF Author:
Publisher:
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Category : Short stories
Languages : en
Pages : 1222

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Encyclopedia of American Humorists

Encyclopedia of American Humorists PDF Author: Steven H. Gale
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317362276
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 578

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First published in 1988, this book contains entries on famous American Humorists. Humor has been present in American literature, from the beginning, and has developed characteristics that reflect the American character, both regional and national. Although American literature was, in the past, treated as inferior to British literature, there has always been a large popular audience for the genre, which this book shows. The figures with entries in this encyclopedia not only amuse in their writing, but also aim to enlighten- setting out to expose the foibles and foolishness of society and the individuals who compose it. It is the manner in which these authors try to accomplish this end that determines whether they appear in the volume. Indeed, the book will demonstrate that the best humor has at its base, a ready understanding of human nature.