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Ellis Parker Butler (1869–1937)

Author of Pigs Is Pigs

48+ Works 330 Members 6 Reviews

About the Author

Includes the names: Ellis Butler, Butler Ellis P, Ellis Paker Butler, Ellis Parker Burler, Butler Parker Ellis, Ellis Parker Butler

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Works by Ellis Parker Butler

Pigs Is Pigs (1905) 134 copies
21 Essential American Short Stories (2011) — Contributor — 26 copies
Philo Gubb, Correspondence-School Detective (1913) 16 copies
The water goats, and other troubles (1910) 12 copies
The Great American Pie Company (1907) 12 copies
The Thin Santa Claus (2011) 10 copies
Kilo : being the love story of Eliph' Hewlitt, book agent (1907) 9 copies
Mike Flannery On Duty and Off (2010) 9 copies
The adventures of a suburbanite (1911) 8 copies
"Pigs Is Pigs" and "Teeth Is Teeth": The Classic Humor of Ellis Parker Butler (2010) 7 copies
Goat-Feathers (1919) 7 copies
The Confessions of a Daddy (1907) 7 copies
Perkins of Portland Perkins the Great (2008) 6 copies
The incubator baby (1906) 6 copies
That Pup (2015) 6 copies
The Cheerful Smugglers (2011) 5 copies
Ghosts What Ain't (1923) 5 copies
How It Feels To Be Fifty (2018) 4 copies
Short Science Fiction Collection 010 3 copies
Solander's Radio Tomb (2011) 3 copies
Hunting the wow, (1934) 2 copies
Philo Gubb's Greatest Case (HTML only) (2009) 2 copies
Jo Ann, tomboy, (1933) 2 copies
Swatty: A Story of Real Boys (2015) 2 copies
Dollarature;: Or, The drug-store book (1930) 2 copies
The Jack-Knife Man (2018) 2 copies
AN EXPERIMENT IN GYRO-HATS ... Special Edition. 2 copies
The Adventures of Shagbark Jones and Philo Gubb (2006) 1 copy
The Ultimate Christmas Collection: 150+ authors & 400+ Christmas Novels, Stories, Poems, Carols & Legends 1 copy
Librivox Christmas Short Works Collection 2006 1 copy
Detective Philo Gubb's Cases: The Hard-Boiled Egg, The Pet, The Eagle's Claws, The Oubliette, The Un-Burglars, The… (2020) 1 copy
"The Un-Burglars" 1 copy
The Water Goats: And Other Troubles (Classic Reprint) (2018) 1 copy
Librivox Christmas Short Works Collection 2009 1 copy
1905 AMERICANA HUMOR ILLUSTRATED DUST JACKET PIGS IS PIGS ELLIS PARKER BUTLER DJ 1 copy
The Thin Santa Claus, and Pigs Is Pigs (Illustrated Edition) (Dodo Press) (2008) 1 copy
The Adventures of a Suburbanite (1911 1 copy
Solanders Radio Tomb (2022) 1 copy
Swatty (2015) 1 copy
Kakaua the Unconquered {short story} 1 copy
Mr. Perkins of Portland (1906) 1 copy
The Behind Legs of the 'Orse 1 copy
Selected Works of Ellis Parker Butler (illustrated): (Seven Books with 27 Illustrations) (2014) 1 copy
Jibby Jones and the Alligator: The Story of the Young Alligator-Hunters of the Upper Mississipi Valley. 1 copy
Red Head and Whistle Breeches (2015) 1 copy
The Silver Protector [Our First Burglar] 1 copy
The Hard-boiled Egg (HTML only) (2010) 1 copy
The Sheep 1 copy
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Associated Works

100 Crooked Little Crime Stories (1994) — Contributor — 165 copies
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes: A Collection of Victorian Detective Tales (2008) — Contributor — 109 copies
The Best American Humorous Short Stories (1945) — Contributor — 85 copies
Science Fiction by Gaslight: A History and Anthology of Science Fiction in the Popular Magazines, 1891-1911 (1968) — Contributor, some editions — 53 copies
The Best Ghost Stories (1919) — Contributor — 34 copies
The World's Best One Hundred Detective Stories, Volume 2 (1929) — Contributor — 17 copies
Twelve American Crime Stories (1998) — Contributor — 14 copies
The Story Pocket Book (1944) — Contributor — 13 copies
Tall Short Stories (1960) — Contributor — 9 copies
World's Great Humorous Stories (1944) — Contributor — 9 copies
The bear went over the mountain (1964) — Contributor — 6 copies
Writing Books for Boys and Girls (1952) — Contributor, some editions — 5 copies
The Fireside Treasury of Modern Humor (1963) — Contributor — 5 copies
20 Best Short Stories in Ray Long's 20 Years As an Editor (1932) — Contributor — 5 copies
Marriage: Short Stories of Married Life (1923) — Contributor — 2 copies
Pigs Is Pigs [1954 short film] (1954) — Original story — 2 copies

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21 essential American short stories by Leslie Pockell
I sought out this collection after reading a discussion thread not long ago about the most memorable/traumatizing short stories assigned by high school English teachers. Only 21 stories are included here, and they are limited to those of only American origin, but I thought it was a reasonably well-rounded collection. They range from the humorous and the delightfully disturbing to the incomprehensible ("The Call of Cthulhu") and the weirdly twisted, and I limited my reading to no more than a single story each day to allow more time to ruminate.… (more)
 
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ryner | May 10, 2023 |
Solanders Radio Tomb by Ellis Parker Butler
Published in 1923 in the magazine Radio News, this is a sci fi story (tame sci fi) about a rich pious old man and a hobbyist specializing in the new technology of radio. Entertaining!
 
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chibitika | Jun 9, 2022 |
Pigs Is Pigs by Ellis Parker Butler
Delicious humor - loved it ! A
 
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REINADECOPIAYPEGA | 1 other review | Jan 11, 2018 |
Philo Gubb's Greatest Case by Ellis Parker Butler
Expecting a good mystery, I was disappointed to find more of a humerous spoof.
 
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GTTexas | Nov 8, 2011 |
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