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The slim Princess

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First published: 1907
Pages: 95

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'The Slim Princess' is a humorous book and it is set in the fictional land of Morovenia. In Morovenia girls who are big are considered beautiful and thin women are seen as abnormal.

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George Ade

George Ade turned the slang, status anxieties, and social rituals of turn-of-the-century America into sharply compressed comedy. Fables in Slang established his signature form through mock moral tales told in vernacular language, with Clyde J. Newman illustrating the early volume. Ade’s Fables returned to the form with John T.

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Author: George Ade
First published: 1907
Reading time: About 100 minutes
Pages: 95
Language: English
Genre: Satire
Formats: PDF, EPUB, Read online