George Ade
Born: February 9, 1866 in Kentland, Indiana
Died: May 16, 1944 in Brook, Indiana Connection to Illinois: Ade lived and wrote in Chicago from 1890 to about 1902. Biography: George Ade wrote a popular newspaper column, Stories of the Streets and of the Town, for the Chicago Record between 1890 and 1900. These columns were the basis of Artie (1896), Pink Marsh (1897) and Doc Horne (1899). Ade's greatest success, however, was Fables in Slang (1899), a collection of short sketches that satirized turn-of-the-century manners in breezy vernacular language. Eleven other collections of fables followed. Ade also was a successful writer of musical comedies, including The College Widow (1904).
Awards:
- Body of Work Indiana Journalism Hall of Fame, 1982, Name engraved on the frieze of the Illinois State Library alongside other great Illinois literary figures, 1990
Web: https://americanliterature.com/author/george-ade
Web: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Ade_House
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Ade
Selected Titles
| Ade's fables. ISBN: 1177119153 OCLC: 944988202 Nabu Press, [Place of publication not identified] : 2010. |
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Artie, a story of the streets and town ISBN: 0548028303 OCLC: 176930722 Kessinger Publishing, LLC 1896 |
| Breaking into society. ISBN: 1407769650 OCLC: 940854983 Hardpress Publishing, [Place of publication not identified] : 2012. |
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| Circus day. ISBN: 1290287260 OCLC: 940517522 Hardpress Publishing, [Place of publication not identified] : 2012. |
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| Doc' horne, a story of the streets and town. ISBN: 1407679821 OCLC: 940458327 Hardpress Publishing, [Place of publication not identified] : 2012. |
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| Forty modern fables. ISBN: 1176622668 OCLC: 944412721 Nabu Press, [Place of publication not identified] : 2010. |
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Hand-made fables. ISBN: 1230202714 OCLC: 923391559 Theclassics Us, [Place of publication not identified] : 2013. |
| I KNEW HIM WHEN : ISBN: 1332142346 OCLC: 975451394 FORGOTTEN Books, [Place of publication not identified], 2015. |
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| In babel : ISBN: 1313308072 OCLC: 926966151 Hardpress Ltd, [Place of publication not identified] : 2013. |
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| In pastures new ISBN: 0665710178 OCLC: 53690665 Musson, Toronto : 1906. |
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| Knocking the neighbors ISBN: 9781519393739 OCLC: 953875154 |
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| Lettres édifiantes et curieuses écrites par des missionnaires de la Compagnie de Jésus ISBN: 0665411154 OCLC: 49147573 |
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More Fables ISBN: 0548466122 OCLC: 270666 G.J. McLeod 1900 |
| More fables. ISBN: 111383417X OCLC: 941748250 Bibliolife, [Place of publication not identified] : 2011. |
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| One afternoon with Mark Twain ISBN: 0849200431 OCLC: 3310877 R. West, Philadelphia : 1977 [©1939] |
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People You Know ISBN: B0BSLRK5X2 OCLC: 1905 |
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Pink Marsh ISBN: 0548393524 OCLC: 179776234 Kessinger Publishing, LLC 1897 |
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Single Blessedness And Other Observations ISBN: 0548420254 OCLC: 7330048 Kessinger Publishing, LLC 1933 |
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Stories of Chicago ISBN: 0252028708 OCLC: Urbana : University of Illinois Press Urbana : 2003 Originally published anonymously between 1893 and 1900 in a column in the "Chicago Record," a collection of stories offers a look at the social life of Chicago in the Gay Nineties. |
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The Girl Proposition ISBN: B010R2WH7E OCLC: R. H. Russell 1903 More fables from humorist George Ade. These (subtitled A Bunch of He and She Fables), focus on the ever-challenging relationship between men and women. As the author states, "The Girl Proposition contains so many kinds of Human Endeavor that it has been found inadvisable to treat the Subject exhaustively in a mere Pocket Guide. The Purpose of this Volume shall have been accomplished if Students are aroused to a keener Interest in the sprightly Topic and feel encouraged to undertake Original Research, verifying by Experiment the Conclusions herewith set down." The illustrations, in imitation of the old-style woodcuts, are by John T. McCutcheon, Frank Holme, Carl Werntz, and Clyde J. Newman. 192 pages. |
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The old-time saloon : ISBN: 9780226412306 OCLC: 944087067 Fancy a tipple? Then pull up a stool, raise a glass, and dip into this delightful paean to the grand old saloon days of yore. Written by Chicago-based journalist, playwright, and all-round wit George Ade in the waning years of Prohibition, The Old-Time Saloon is both a work of propaganda masquerading as “just history” and a hilarious exercise in nostalgia. Featuring original, vintage illustrations along with a new introduction and notes from Bill Savage, Ade's book takes us back to the long-gone men’s clubs of earlier days, when beer was a nickel, the pretzels were polished, and the sardines were free. |
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The Slim Princess ISBN: 0548007411 OCLC: 1075716 1st World Library - Literary Society 1907 |
| True bills. ISBN: 128662648X OCLC: 935005614 Nabu Press, [Place of publication not identified] : 2012. |