Ring Lardner

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.” For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Selected Stories

Through these pages pass con men, an opinionated small-town barber, a nurse who chatters on and on--much to the chagrin of her charges--baseball players and boxers. Published in "The Saturday Evening Post, Collier's", and "Vanity Fair", Lardner enjoyed great success and was heralded as a singular talent by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Hemingway, H.L. Mencken, and Virginia Woolf. Lightning Print On Demand Title

Haircut and Other Stories

I viaggi di Gullible

The career of an inept but impetuous baseball pitcher is recorded in letters to a friend

You Know Me Al

Prima di sposarti ero molto più in forma

David Lodge

The Best of Ring Lardner

The Best Short Stories of Ring Lardner

Tagliando i capelli e altri racconti

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Gullible's Travels, Etc

Five long short stories--excerpts from the life of one zany couple--detail the traumas of breaking into society, a visit from a maiden sister, an evening at the opera, and a couple of exceptional games of bridge, all told in the popular, uncultured vernacular of early twentieth century Chicago.Notice: This Book is published by Historical Books Limited (www.publicdomain.org.uk) as a Public Domain Book, if you have any inquiries, requests or need any help you can just send an email to publications@publicdomain.org.uk This book is found as a public domain and free book based on various online catalogs, if you think there are any problems regard copyright issues please contact us immediately via DMCA@publicdomain.org.uk

Gullible's Travels

This early work by Ring Lardner was originally published in 1918 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introduction. Ring Lardner was born in Niles, Michigan in 1885. He studied engineering at the Armour Institute of Technology in Chicago, but did not complete his first semester. In 1907, Lardner obtained his first job as journalist with the South Bend Times. Six years later, he published his first successful book, You Know Me Al, an epistolary novel written in the form of letters by 'Jack Keefe', a bush-league baseball player, to a friend back home. A huge hit, the book earned the appreciation of Virginia Woolf and others. Lardner went on to write such well-known short stories as 'Haircut', 'Some Like Them Cold', 'The Golden Honeymoon', 'Alibi Ike', and 'A Day with Conrad Green'.

Gullible's Travels (1917)

Gullible's Travels, Etc.

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Symptoms of Being 35

This early work by Ring Lardner was originally published in 1918 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introduction. 'Treat 'Em Rough' is a selection of short stories written in letter form. Ring Lardner was born in Niles, Michigan in 1885. He studied engineering at the Armour Institute of Technology in Chicago, but did not complete his first semester. In 1907, Lardner obtained his first job as journalist with the South Bend Times. Six years later, he published his first successful book, You Know Me Al, an epistolary novel written in the form of letters by 'Jack Keefe', a bush-league baseball player, to a friend back home. A huge hit, the book earned the appreciation of Virginia Woolf and others. Lardner went on to write such well-known short stories as 'Haircut', 'Some Like Them Cold', 'The Golden Honeymoon', 'Alibi Ike', and 'A Day with Conrad Green'.

Treat 'Em Rough - Letters From Jack The Kaiser Killer

With Samples

How to Write Short Stories

The Story of a Wonder Man, Being the Autobiography of R. Lardner. Illustrated by Margaret Freeman

George Simon Kaufman

A Comedy in a Prologue and Three Acts

June Moon

Book Excerpt: ...was gettin' trimmed or he never would have no pay day. Then he got confidential."Pay day wouldn't do me no good," he says. "When I'm all squared up with the club and begin to have a pay day I'll only get a hundred bucks at a time, and I'll owe that to some o' you fellers. I wisht we could win the pennant and get in on that World's Series dough. Then I'd get a bunch at once.""What would you do with a bunch o' dough?" I ast him."Don't tell nobody, sport," he says; "but if I ever get five hundred at once I'm goin' to get married.""Oh!" I says. "And who's the lucky girl?""She's a girl up in Muskegon," says Elliott; "and you're right when you call her lucky.""You don't like yourself much, do you?" I says."I got reason to like myself," says he. "You'd like yourself, too, if you could hit 'em like me.""Well," I says. "you didn't show me no hittin' to-day.""I couldn't hit because I was laughin' too hard," says Elliott."What was it you was...

My Roomy

What of It?

August Nemo

Ring Lardner was an American sports columnist and short-story writer best known for his satirical writings on sports, marriage, and the theatre. His contemporaries Ernest Hemingway, Virginia Woolf, and F. Scott Fitzgerald all professed strong admiration for his writing. In this book you will find seven short stories specially selected by the critic August Nemo: - Haircut - The Golden Honey Moon - My Roomy - Horseshoes - Harmony - Alibi Ike - Champion

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