Selected Stories
by Lardner, RingFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1997-05-01
Publisher(s): 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) | |||
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| Suggestions for Further Reading | xix | (1) | |||
| A Note on the Text | xx | ||||
| SELECTED STORIES | |||||
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1 | (110) | |||
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1 | (16) | |||
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17 | (18) | |||
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35 | (18) | |||
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53 | (20) | |||
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73 | (19) | |||
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92 | (19) | |||
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111 | (16) | |||
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127 | (15) | |||
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142 | (17) | |||
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159 | (31) | |||
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190 | (18) | |||
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208 | (21) | |||
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229 | (17) | |||
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246 | (19) | |||
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265 | (15) | |||
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280 | (84) | |||
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280 | (17) | |||
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297 | (12) | |||
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309 | (16) | |||
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325 | (20) | |||
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345 | (19) | |||
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