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9780141180182

Selected Stories

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  • ISBN13:

    9780141180182

  • ISBN10:

    0141180188

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1997-05-01
  • Publisher: Penguin Classics

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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.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction vii(12)
Jonathan Yardley
Suggestions for Further Reading xix(1)
A Note on the Text xx
SELECTED STORIES
You Know Me Al
1(110)
A Busher's Letters Home
1(16)
The Busher Comes Back
17(18)
The Busher's Honeymoon
35(18)
A New Busher Breaks In
53(20)
The Busher's Kid
73(19)
The Busher Beats It Hence
92(19)
CALL FOR MR. KEEFE!
111(16)
ALONG CAME RUTH
127(15)
ALIBI IKE
142(17)
GULLIBLE'S TRAVELS
159(31)
CHAMPION
190(18)
THE FACTS
208(21)
HARMONY
229(17)
MY ROOMY
246(19)
10 THE YOUNG IMMIGRUNTS
265(15)
The Big Town
280(84)
Quick Returns
280(17)
Ritchey
297(12)
Lady Perkins
309(16)
Only One
325(20)
Katie Wins a Home
345(19)
SOME LIKE COLD
364

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