Ring Lardner: Selected Stories (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) - Softcover

Lardner, Ring

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141180188 ISBN 13: 9780141180182

Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group, 1997

Synopsis

This collection brings together twenty-one of Lardner’s best pieces, including the six Jack Keefe stories that comprise You Know Me, Al, as well as such familiar favorites as “Alibi Ike,” “Some Like Them Cold,” and “Guillible’s Travels.”

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About this title

From the Back Cover:

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.

About the Author:

Jonathan Yardley is the book critic of and a columnist for the Washington Post. His books include biographies of Ring Lardner and Frederick Exley. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Criticism in 1981.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0141180188
• ISBN 13: 9780141180182
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 410