Selected Stories

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ISBN-10: 0141180188
ISBN-13: 9780141180182
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publish Date: 05/01/1997
Dimensions: 7.76" L, 5.05" W, 0.72" H

Selected Stories

byRing Lardner
Introduction by: Jonathan Yardley

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Overview

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.

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Details

ISBN-10: 0141180188
ISBN-13: 9780141180182
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publish Date: 05/01/1997
Dimensions: 7.76" L, 5.05" W, 0.72" H
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