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These are short stories, brief little hammer-stroke stories, just long
enough to hit the nail upon the head. Mr. Ade’s “Babel” is Chicago, and
the scenes of the stories are laid in familiar and unfamiliar quarters
of that rushing Western metropolis. It is a book about the real joys
and sorrows of real people, written in pure English by the great master
of American slang, whose quaint philosophy and humor have ranked him
among America’s most characteristic writers.
The stories deal with the upper, the middle, and the under classes,
and show in both pathetic and humorous light the happenings in the
fashionable circles upon the Lake front, as well as among the Irish and
Italian emigrants in the squalid quarters of the city.
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