Author:George Ade

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George Ade
(1866–1944)
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American writer, newspaper columnist, and playwright; remembered for his collection, Fables in slang, which first appeared in his popular column

George Ade

Works

  • "Stories of the Streets and of the Town" (a series of newspaper columns published from 1894 to 1900)
  • What a Man Sees Who Goes Away from Home (1896)
  • Circus Day (1896) (start transcription)
  • Artie (1896) (start transcription)
  • Pink Marsh (1897) (start transcription)
  • Doc' Horne (1899) (start transcription)
  • Fables in Slang (1899) (start transcription)
  • More Fables (1900) (start transcription)
  • American Vacations in Europe (1901) (start transcription)
  • Forty Modern Fables (1901) (start transcription)
  • The Girl Proposition (1902) (start transcription)
  • The Sultan of Sulu (1902–03, a comic opera and a one-act play) (start transcription)
  • Peggy from Paris (1903, a musical comedy) (start transcription)
  • The County Chairman (1903 and 1924, a play) External scan
  • In Babel (1903) (start transcription)
  • People You Know (1903) (start transcription)
  • Handsome Cyril (1903,Strenuous Lad's Library, no. 1) (start transcription)
  • Clarence Allen (1903, Strenuous Lad's Library, no. 2) (start transcription)
  • Rollo Johnson (1904, Strenuous Lad's Library, no. 3) (start transcription)
  • Breaking into Society (1904) (start transcription)
  • The Sho-Gun (1904, a comic opera) (start transcription)
  • The College Widow (1904 and 1924, a play) (start transcription)
  • True Bills (1904) (start transcription)
  • The Bad Samaritan (1905, a play)
  • Just Out of College (1905 and 1924, a play) External scan
  • In Pastures New (1906) (start transcription)
  • Marse Covington (1906, a one-act play) (start transcription)
  • Round about Cairo, with and without the Assistance of the Dragoman or Simon Legree of the Orient (1906, from In Pastures New)
  • The Slim Princess (1907) (start transcription)
  • The Fair Co-ed (1908, a musical) External scan
  • Father and the Boys (1908, a comedy-drama play) External scan
  • "The Backslider" in in Collier's, December 11, 1909
  • The Old Town (1910, a musical)
  • I Knew Him When: A Hoosier Fable Dealing with the Happy Days of Away Back Yonder (1910) (start transcription)
  • Hoosier Hand Book and True Guide for the Returning Exile (1911) External scan
  • Verses and Jingles (1911) (start transcription)
  • On the Indiana Trail (1911)
  • The Revised Legend for One Who Came Back (1912)
  • Knocking the Neighbors (1912) (start transcription)
  • "March Fourth in Musselwhite" in Collier's, March 8, 1913
  • Ade's Fables (1914) (start transcription)
  • The Fable of the Busy Business Boy and the Droppers-In (1914)
  • The Fable of the Roistering Blades (1915)
  • Invitation to You and Your Folks from Jim and Some More of the Home Folks (1916)
  • Hand-made Fables (1920) (start transcription)
  • Single Blessedness and Other Observations (1922) (start transcription)
  • Mayor and the Manicure (1923, a one-act play) External scan
  • Nettie (1923, a one-act play) External scan
  • Speaking to Father (1923, a one-act play) External scan
  • "Authors!—Burn Up Your Alibis!", in Photoplay, September 1923, p. 46
  • Thirty Fables in Slang (1926)
  • Bang! Bang! (1928) (start transcription)
  • The Sigma Chi Creed (1929)
  • Old-time Saloon: Not Wet—Not Dry, Just History (1931) External scan
  • One Afternoon with Mark Twain (1939) External scan
  • Notes & Reminiscences (1940, with John T. McCutcheon)

Collected works

  • Stories of the Streets and of the Towns (1941, edited by Franklin J. Meine)
  • The America of George Ade, 1866–1944; Fables, Short Stories, Essays (1960, edited and introduced by Jean Shepherd)

Miscellaneous

  • My Maiden Effort (1921, authors discussing their first literary works, (start transcription)

Works about Ade

Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1930.

This author died in 1944, so works by this author are in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 80 years or less. These works may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

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