Ring Lardner : Stories & other writings / Ring Lardner ; Ian Frazier, editor.
At the height of the Jazz Age, Ring Lardner was Americas most beloved humorist, equally admired by a popular audience and by literary friends like F. Scott Fitzgerald and Edmund Wilson. A sports writer who became a sensation with his comic baseball bestseller, "You Know Me Al," Lardner had a rare gift for inspired nonsense and an ear attuned to the rhythms and hilarious oddities of American speech. He was also a sharp and dispassionate observer of the American scene. --amazon.com.
Here, in one volume for the first time, the full text of You Know Me Al, The Big Town, and the long out-of-print The Real Dope, and a generous sampling of humor pieces, sports reporting, song lyrics, surrealist playlets, and letters.
Record details
- ISBN: 1598532537
- ISBN: 9781598532531
- Physical Description: ix, 961 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
- Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Library of America, [2013]
- Distributor: New York, N.Y. : Distributed to the trade in the United States by Penguin Group, Inc.
- Copyright: ©2013
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Formatted Contents Note: | You know me Al: a busher's letters -- from Gullible's travels, etc. -- The real dope -- The young immigrunts -- The big town -- from How to write short stories (with samples) -- from The love nest and other stories -- from Round up -- Uncollected stories -- Sketches and reporting -- Plays -- Song lyrics -- Letters -- Chronology. |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Pottsville Free Public Library | LOA 818.52 L322 (Text)
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Donated by Edward J. Donahue III in memory of LaVerne Scheibelhut Donahue
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