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  • You Know Me Al: A Busher's Letters

    Navigating the Ups and Downs of a Busher's Rookie Season

    by Ring Lardner ...
    In "You Know Me Al: A Busher's Letters," Ring Lardner employs a distinctive epistolary format to narrate the experiences of a naïve, small-town baseball player named Jack Keefe. Through a series of humorous and often sardonic letters written to his friend Al, Lardner cleverly critiques the world of professional baseball in the early 20th century. The book showcases Lardner's keen ear for dialogue ... Read more

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  • The Classic Collection of Ring Lardner. Illustrated

    You Know Me, Alibi Ike, Some Like Them Cold, Guillible’s Travels and others

    by Ring Lardner ...
    This beautifully illustrated volume brings together the finest works of Ring Lardner, one of America’s most distinctive literary voices of the early 20th century. Known for his sharp wit, ear for dialogue, and keen sense of irony, Lardner masterfully captured the quirks of American life through sports, relationships, and social satire. The collection features You Know Me, Al, a groundbreaking ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • The Young Immigrunts

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    by Ring Lardner ...
    A sharp-eyed child watches his family's eastward migration turn into a rolling comedy of egos, detours, and domestic sparring. Through Bill's delightfully misspelled, deadpan voice, a boastful, quick-witted father presides over the chaos while his patient, sarcastic mother, siblings, and nurse respond with equal parts irritation and affection. What begins in Chicago unfolds as a cross-country road ... Read more

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  • Round Up: The Stories of Ring Lardner

    by Ring Lardner ...
    First published in 1929, public domain. Lardner, American humorist and short-story writer, is known for his mordant wit, exemplified in satirical stories and sketches of American life in the early 20th century told in the language of athletes, stockbrokers, secretaries, chorus girls, etc. This is a compilation of almost all of his best stories. ... Read more

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  • The Neglected Authors: Volume 4 (of 6) – Violet Hunt to Elinor Mordaunt

    by Violet Hunt, Ring Lardner, C E Montague ...
    Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society.In literature the ambition is much narrower. In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published. And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading. ... Read more

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  • The Neglected Authors - American Men

    by Charles W Chesnutt, Ring Lardner, Sinclair Lewis ...
    Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society.In literature the ambition is much narrower. In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published. And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading. ... Read more

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  • Ring Lardner: Stories & Other Writings (LOA #244)

    by Ring Lardner ...
    At the height of the Jazz Age, Ring Lardner was America’s 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. ... Read more

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  • My Four Weeks In France

    by Ring Lardner ...
    In 1917, Ring Lardner was sent on assignment as a war correspondent on the French front for a series of reports for Collier's magazine. Appearing in serialized format in the magazine before its eventual publication as a book, My Four Weeks in France recalls Lardner's experiences in his new wartime role. Being a humorist and a satirist, it would have been inconsistent with his typical format to ... Read more

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  • Short Fiction

    by Ring Lardner ...
    We rely on your support to help us keep producing beautiful, free, and unrestricted editions of literature for the digital age. Will you support our efforts with a donation ? Ring Lardner was a prolific 20th century American humorist and journalist best known for his baseball stories and reportage, whose corpus nevertheless spans a wide range of genres and styles. He began his professional career ... Read more

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  • Poetry

    by Ring Lardner ...
    Ring Lardner was one of the most prolific humorists of the early 20th century. While he was most famous for the frequent appearances of his short fiction in numerous popular magazines of the era, he was also a prolific writer of poetry. His daily column for the Chicago Tribune entitled "In the Wake of the News" was generally a sports news column, but oftentimes served as a platform to publish his ... Read more

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  • Anthology of Classic Short Stories. Vol. 7 (Humour, Satire and Tall Tales)

    The Ransom of Red Chief by O. Henry, What Stumped the Blue Jays by Mark Twain, When I Was a Witch by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and others

    by O. Henry, Mark Twain, Saki, Johann Peter Hebel, Rudolf Erich Raspe, Ring Lardner, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Voltaire ...
    Translated by Peter Phalen ...
    Satire, Humor and Irony in some cases have been regarded as the most effective source to understand a society, the oldest form of social study.Contents:The Cop and the Anthem by O. HenryThe Ransom of Red Chief by O. HenryWhat Stumped the Blue Jays by Mark TwainThe Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County by Mark TwainThe Toys of Peace by Saki (H. H. Munro)The Artful Hussar by Johann Peter ... Read more

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    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • Anthology of Classic Short Stories. Vol. 10 (Winter Tales)

    To Build a Fire by Jack London, Master and Man by Leo Tolstoy, A Lodging for the Night by Robert Louis Stevenson, The Night Before Christmas by Nikolai Gogol and others

    by Jack London, Saki, Anton Chekhov, Stephen Crane, Leo Tolstoy, Robert Louis Stevenson, Charles Dickens, Ring Lardner, Nikolai Gogol ...
    Translated by Constance Garnett, Louise And Aylmer Maude, George Tolstoy ...
    We share with you a selection of books to create a magical Winter mood. Meet our snow-frosty selection for a cheerful winter reading.Contents:To Build a Fire by Jack LondonThe Interlopers by Saki (H. H. Munro)Misery by Anton ChekhovVanka by Anton ChekhovThe Open Boat by Stephen CraneMaster and Man by Leo TolstoyA Lodging for the Night by Robert Louis StevensonThe Story of the Goblins Who Stole a ... Read more

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