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  • The Big Town

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    by Ring Lardner ...
    Ring W. Lardner's The Big Town follows a dryly comic Midwestern husband whose unexpected inheritance from his wife Ella's stepfather sends the family from modest South Bend into a whirl of money, ambition, and social pretension. With Ella and her sister Katie eager to trade restraint for glamour, the narrator watches their hopes for dresses, parties, and a suitable husband for Katie collide with ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Symptoms of Being 35

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    by Ring Lardner ...
    Ring W. Lardner's comic narrator treats turning 35 as both a crisis and a joke, delivering a mock-serious guide to middle age filled with slang, self-mockery, and sharp observations about masculinity. He riffs on age, marriage, children, hair loss, drinking, and the absurdity of people acting as if 35 is ancient, while also teasing his own name, vanity, and social awkwardness. As he invents ... Read more

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  • Say It With Bricks/say It With Oil

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    by Ring Lardner ...
    Nina Wilcox Putnam turns marriage into a fast, funny battleground of memory, manners, and mutual exasperation. Prompted by a publisher's dare and her husband George's alarmed objections, she delivers a sharp, conversational monologue that skewers husbands' bad grooming, repetitive stories, car trouble, and uncanny talent for making wives wait. But the satire stays affectionate, finding comedy in ... Read more

    $1.99 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

    $1.99 USD

  • 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

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Round Up - The Stories of Ring Lardner

    by Ring W. Lardner ...
    "Round Up: The Stories of Ring Lardner" is a comprehensive collection showcasing Lardner's finest short fiction, demonstrating his genius for capturing American vernacular and exposing human vanity through humor and pathos.The anthology includes his most celebrated works, such as "Haircut," a chilling tale of small-town cruelty disguised as folksy banter, and "The Golden Honeymoon," which reveals ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Haircut

    by Jr. Ring Lardner ...
    This early work by Ring Lardner was originally published in 1925 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introduction. 'Haircut' is a dark satire about moral blindness. Ring Lardner was born in Niles, Michigan in 1885. He studied engineering at the Armour Institute of Technology in Chicago, but did not complete his first semester. In 1907, Lardner obtained his first job as journalist with ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Treat 'Em Rough - Letters From Jack The Kaiser Killer

    by Jr. Ring Lardner ...
    This early work by Ring Lardner was originally published in 1918 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introduction. 'Treat 'Em Rough' is a selection of short stories written in letter form. Ring Lardner was born in Niles, Michigan in 1885. He studied engineering at the Armour Institute of Technology in Chicago, but did not complete his first semester. In 1907, Lardner obtained his first ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Big Town

    by Ring Lardner ...
    Ring Lardner was by most accounts a writer who excelled at creating situations about apple pie America and them warping them with his exceptional satirical gifts to an altogether different plane. In The Big Town he and the missus go to New York to help her sister Katie find a husband. A simple enough premise but life in the Big Apple with Lardners writing is pure genius. ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • 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

    $17.99 USD

  • Alibii Ike & Other Short Stories

    by Ring Lardner ...
    One of Lardners celebrated stories is Alibi Ike first published in 1915 in the Saturday Evening Post. The author in this short tale follows the career of a funnily strong-headed baseball player who is always ready to give farcical alibis for his failures as well as laughable reasons for his victories. Alibi Ike is only the nickname given to the protagonist Frank X. Farrell. When the story was ... 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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