Ellis Parker Butler

1869 - 1937

25 books

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Ellis Parker Butler (December 5, 1869 – September 13, 1937) was an American author. He was the author of more than 30 books and more than 2,000 stories and essays and is most famous for his short story "Pigs Is Pigs", in which a bureaucratic stationmaster insists on levying the livestock rate for a shipment of two pet guinea pigs, which soon start proliferating exponentially. His most famous character was Philo Gubb.

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Jibby Jones : $b A story of Mississippi River adventure for boys

Adventure and adventurers

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Philo Gubb, Correspondence-School Detective

Detective and mystery stories

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Pigs is Pigs

Humorous stories

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The Confessions of a Daddy

Children

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The Jack-Knife Man

Fathers and sons

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Swatty: A Story of Real Boys

Boys

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Perkins of Portland: Perkins The Great

Advertising

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Kilo : being the love story of Eliph' Hewlitt, book agent

Book industries and trade

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Dominie Dean: A Novel

Clergy

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In Pawn

Iowa