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Title
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Slang Fables from Afar
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Description
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This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
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Al Kleberg
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Creator
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Kleberg, Al
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Date
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2016-01-25T16:17:52Z
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1996-08
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1903
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Date Available
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2016-01-25T16:17:52Z
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Date Issued
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1903
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Abstract
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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.
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Identifier
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2459 (Access ID)
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Language
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eng
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Publisher
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Phoenix Publishing Co.
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Baltimore, MD
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Subject
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PS3521.L48 S53 1903
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Kleberg
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Title Page Scanned
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Type
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Book, Whole