Slang Fables from Afar

Title

en_US Slang Fables from Afar

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Al Kleberg

Creator

en_US Kleberg, Al See all items with this value

Date

2016-01-25T16:17:52Z

en_US 1996-08

en_US 1903

Date Available

2016-01-25T16:17:52Z

Date Issued

en_US 1903

Abstract

en_US A surprising find full of questions, first of all because it seems George Ade is not the sole proprieter of the “slang fable” genre. Secondly, we have here two books with nothing to differentiate them but the different-colored background of their covers. Asked why they should be different, Roger theorized that the publisher ran out of one sort of stock and began to use the other. Thirdly, why are these fables “from afar”? Fourthly, why put quotations marks after the title (on the cover) but not before it? The most frequent theme seems to be that in romance, the bigger they come, the harder they fall. Often big talkers meet their match or their Waterloo—or both in one! There is a great moral on 63: “Everyone has a calling but most of us answer someone else’s.” Though the work’s charm is not as great as that of Ade’s, the locus is principally the same, in the fun of well-used idiom, now almost a century old. Like Ade, Kleberg likes to turn to capital letters for emphasis.

Identifier

en_US 2459 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/78000

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Phoenix Publishing Co.

en_US Baltimore, MD

Subject

en_US PS3521.L48 S53 1903 See all items with this value

en_US Kleberg See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole