George Ade (1866 – 1944)

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George Ade (February 9, 1866 – May 16, 1944) was born in Kentland, Indiana. Ade was a newspaper columnist, writer and playwright.

Ade wrote the Stories of the Streets and of the Town column for the Chicago Record.  The column used everyday language as it described life in Chicago.

He is perhaps best known for his collection of stories, Fables in Slang.  The book, published in 1899, was a best-seller.

In 1902 he produced his first play for the Broadway stage. The Sultan of Sulu was a comic opera about the American military endeavors to assimilate natives of the Philippines into American culture.

Ade’s work was most popular in the 1910s and 1920s. Ade’s writing was part of the Golden Age of Indiana Literature of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

They had been brought up in the School of Hard Knocks. ~ Knocking the Neighbors by George Ade

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Jerome K. Jerome (1859 – 1927)

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Last Updated on August 22, 2021

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Jerome Klapka Jerome (2 May 1859 – 14 June 1927) was an English writer, best known for Three Men in a Boat.

Three Men in a Boat was Jerome’s biggest success.  He wrote the novel after taking his honeymoon on a small boat on the Thames.  While he wrote for the rest of his life, he never was able to write anything else as popular as Three Men in a Boat.

Novels by Jerome K. Jerome

  • Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog) (1889)
  • Diary of a Pilgrimage (and Six Essays) (1891)
  • Weeds: A Story in Seven Chapters (1892)
  • Novel Notes (1893)
  • Three Men on the Bummel (a.k.a. Three Men on Wheels) (1900)
  • Paul Kelver, a novel (1902)
  • Tea-table Talk (1903)
  • Tommy and Co (1904)
  • They and I (1909)
  • All Roads Lead to Calvary (1919)
  • Anthony John (1923)

 

Collections

  • Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1886)
  • Told After Supper (1891)
  • John Ingerfield: And Other Stories (1894)
  • Sketches in Lavender, Blue, and Green (1895)
  • Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1898)
  • The Observations of Henry (1901)
  • The Angel and the Author – and Others (1904) (20 essays)
  • American Wives – and Others (1904) (25 essays, comprising 5 from The Angel and the Author, and 20 from Idle Ideas in 1905)
  • Idle Ideas in 1905 (1905)
  • The Passing of the Third Floor Back: And Other Stories (1907)
  • Malvina of Brittany (1916)
  • A miscellany of sense and nonsense from the writings of Jerome K. Jerome. Selected by the author with many apologies, with forty-three illustrations by Will Owen. 1924
  • Three Men in a Boat and Three Men on the Bummel (1974)
  • After Supper Ghost Stories: And Other Tales (1985)
  • A Bicycle in Good Repair

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Quotes About Houses From Literature

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Quotes About Houses From Literature

We hope you enjoy these six literary quotes about houses. Click here to see our full collection of house quotes.

There was not one straight floor from the foundation to the roof; the ceilings were so fantastically clouded by smoke and dust, that old women might have told fortunes in them better than in grouts of tea. ~ Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens

Most of the houses of the Midland town were of a pleasant architecture. They lacked style, but also lacked pretentiousness, and whatever does not pretend at all has style enough. ~ The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington

Even in common people, conceit has the virtue of making them cheerful; the man who thinks his wife, his baby, his house, his horse, his dog, and himself severally unequalled, is almost sure to be a good-humored person, though liable to be tedious at times. ~ The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

“I will die here where I have walked. And I will walk here, though I am in my grave. I will walk here until the pride of this house is humbled.” ~ Bleak House by Charles Dickens

“Do you know,” Peter asked “why swallows build in the eaves of houses? It is to listen to the stories.” ~ Peter Pan by James M. Barrie

An empty house is like a stray dog or a body from which life has departed. ~ The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler

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Henry Fielding (1707 – 1754)

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Last Updated on August 8, 2021

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Henry Fielding (1707 – 1754) was an English novelist.  He’s most known for his novels Joseph Andrews and Tom Jones.

Additionally, Fielding holds a place in the history of law enforcement. He and his half-brother, John, helped to found the Bow Street Runners, known as London’s first police force.

Fielding’s younger sister, Sarah, was also a writer.  Her novel The Governess, or The Little Female Academy was written expressly for children.

A good conscience is never lawless in the worst regulated state, and will provide those laws for itself, which the neglect of legislators hath forgotten to supply. ~ Tom Jones by Henry Fielding

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Novels by Henry Fielding

  • Shamela – novella, 1741
  • The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews and his Friend, Mr. Abraham Adams – 1742
  • The Life and Death of Jonathan Wild, the Great – 1743
  • The Female Husband or the Surprising History of Mrs Mary alias Mr George Hamilton, who was convicted of having married a young woman of Wells and lived with her as her husband, taken from her own mouth since her confinement – pamphlet, fictionalized report, 1746
  • The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling – 1749
  • A Journey from this World to the Next – 1749
  • Amelia – 1751

5 Quotes About Blessings

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Quotes About Blessings

Here are five quotes about blessings from literature.  We hope you enjoy them and that you enjoy many blessings in your life.

For his part, every beauty of art or nature made him thankful as well as happy, and that the pleasure to be had in listening to fine music, as in looking at the stars in the sky, or at a beautiful landscape or picture, was a benefit for which we might thank Heaven as sincerely as for any other worldly blessing. ~ Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

“Here was I asking a blessing and neglecting the means, which is a mockery.” ~ Cousin Phillis by Elizabeth Gaskell

How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads, to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams. ~ Dracula by Bram Stoker

Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigour. With such people the grey head is but the impression of the old fellow’s hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life. ~ Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens

A well proportioned mind is one which shows no particular bias; one of which we may safely say that it will never cause its owner to be confined as a madman, tortured as a heretic, or crucified as a blasphemer. Also, on the other hand, that it will never cause him to be applauded as a prophet, revered as a priest, or exalted as a king. Its usual blessings are happiness and mediocrity. ~ Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy

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10 Quotes About Life from Literature

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Quotes About Life

Here are ten life quotes from literature.  Some of the quotes will inspire you, some will make you think and others will make you smile.

“You will be required to do wrong no matter where you go. It is the basic condition of life, to be required to violate your own identity. At some time, every creature which lives must do so. It is the ultimate shadow, the defeat of creation; this is the curse at work, the curse that feeds on all life. Everywhere in the universe.” ~ Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick

Life had taught her to be brave, to be patient, to love, to forgive. ~ Rainbow Valley by Lucy Maud Montgomery

The first thing you learn in life is you’re a fool. The last thing you learn in life is you’re the same fool. ~ Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury

“God did not give me my life to throw away.” ~ Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice. ~ A Room With A View by E. M. Forster

A Room With A View by E. M. Forster

“Nothing should be out of the reach of hope. Life is a hope.” ~ A Woman of No Importance by Oscar Wilde

A Woman of No Importance

The end of religion is not to teach us how to die, but how to live. ~ Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte

Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte

If you need something to worship, then worship life — all life, every last crawling bit of it! We’re all in this beauty together! ~ Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert

Men live their lives trapped in an eternal present, between the mists of memory and the sea of shadow that is all we know of the days to come. ~ A Dance with Dragons by George R. R. Martin

Life may as properly be called an art as any other. ~ Amelia by Henry Fielding

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Giving Thanks on Memorial Day – 2019

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The White Company by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

And now set in a fell and fierce fight, one of a thousand of which no chronicler has spoken and no poet sung. Through all the centuries and over all those southern waters nameless men have fought in nameless places, their sole monuments a protected coast and an unravaged country-side. ~ The White Company by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Quotes about Parenting

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Men of honor will do things for their children that they would never consider doing for themselves. ~ A Feast for Crows by George R. R. Martin

Parents are apt to see no injustice in the fact that they are often annoyed with their offspring for possessing attributes, both of character and appearance, with which they themselves have endowed them. ~ The Rosary by Florence L. Barclay

“But a wise parent humours the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and adviser when his absolute rule shall cease.” ~ North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell

“The universe,” he observed, “makes rather an indifferent parent, I am afraid.” ~ Bleak House by Charles Dickens

“If you would have your son to walk honourably through the world, you must not attempt to clear the stones from his path, but teach him to walk firmly over them – not insist upon leading him by the hand, but let him learn to go alone.” ~ The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte

“My dear Watson, you as a medical man are continually gaining light as to the tendencies of a child by the study of the parents. Don’t you see that the converse is equally valid. I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.” ~ The Adventure of the Copper Beeches by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Like many other unfortunate young people, Harvey had never in all his life received a direct order – never, at least, without long, and sometimes tearful, explanations of the advantages of obedience and the reasons for the request. ~ Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling

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