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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
Content descriptions
| 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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| Subject: | Short stories, American. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Pottsville District Libraries. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Pottsville Free Public Library.
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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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30003009062355 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
Summary:
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.
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.
