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The Slim Princess - George Ade

出版	CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2010-02-26
主題	Comics & Graphic Novels / GeneralFiction / General
ISBN	14515179209781451517927
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=r0ZeRwAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋A passage from the book...George Ade (1866-1944) was an American playwright and humorist. Ade wrote for some newspapers before finding work at The Morning News. He began publishing his own work in 1896. His works include: Artie (1896), Pink Marsh (1897), Doc Horne (1899), Fables in Slang (1899), The Girl Proposition (1902), Peggy from Paris and the County Chairman (1903), The Old Town (1909), Knocking the Neighbors (1912) and Ade's Fables (1914). "Out in the Celery Belt of the Hinterland there is a stunted Flag-Station. Number Six, carrying one Day Coach and a Combination Baggage and Stock Car, would pause long enough to unload a Bucket of Oysters and take on a Crate of Eggs. "Morovenia is a state in which both the mosque and the motor-car now occur in the same landscape. It started out to be Turkish and later decided to be European. The Mohammedan sanctuaries with their hideous stencil decorations and bulbous domes are jostled by many new shops with blinking fronts and German merchandise. The orthodox turn their faces toward Mecca while the enlightened dream of a journey to Paris.