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Selected Stories

Ring Lardner

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.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Penguin Classics
  • Publish Date: May 1st, 1997
  • Pages: 400
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 7.76in - 5.05in - 0.72in - 0.62lb
  • EAN: 9780141180182
  • Recommended age: 18-UP
  • Categories: ClassicsShort Stories (single author)

About the Author

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.