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Selected stories / Ring Lardner ; edited with an introduction by Jonathan Yardley.
LIBRA - Special PS3523.A7 A6 1997
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lardner, Ring, 1885-1933.
- Series:
- Penguin twentieth-century classics
- Standardized Title:
- Short stories. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--Social life and customs--20th century--Fiction.
- United States.
- Manners and customs.
- Baseball stories, American.
- Humorous stories, American.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xx, 379 pages ; 20 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Penguin Books, 1997.
- Summary:
- Ring Lardner's humor, quirky imagination, and ear for the American vernacular endeared him to such formidable critics as Hemingway, Fitzgerald, V. S. Pritchett, and Virginia Woolf. A newspaperman who began as a sports reporter and almost accidentally stumbled into short-story writing, Lardner meticulously captured the way Americans really speak. In You Know Me Al (1916), he created one of the most enduring characters in American fiction, the semi-literate baseball player Jack Keefe.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (page xix).
- ISBN:
- 0141180188
- OCLC:
- 35637403
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