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Artie, by George Ade, 1896 (Cover)

 

 

 

Artie, by George Ade, 1896 (Cover)

George Ade's first novel, Artie (1896), captured the character and lively vernacular speech of a young Loop office worker in a series of sketches first developed in Ade's feature column in the Chicago Record, "Stories of the Streets and of the Town."