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2 reviews
Ring Lardner

Touchstone, 1991

This book could make a sad man laugh
I had this book in hardback and it dissappeared when I lent it to a friend. A long time went buy until I found Amazon and was able to replace the book. To tell you the truth I enjoyed it even more the second time around. Alibi Ike could probably make someone laugh on his way to the electric chair. Also for young people, this book could show you the path we followed to get here. Frank ...

You Know Me Al

12 reviews
Ring Lardner

New Library Press, 2008

You Know Me Al
This is a classic. Every baseball fan with a sense of humor should take time to read this great book by Ring Lardner.

Ring Lardner: Selected Stories (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)

5 reviews
Ring Lardner

Penguin Classics, 1997

"She looked at me like a side dish I hadn't ordered"
What a great gift it is to be funny on the page, to be able to make people laugh outloud. Ring Lardner had this in a big way. Mark Twain did it first and had his characters talk very much like the people he had met. But Ring Lardner does this for all kinds of American midwest and smalltown American people. He does it for boxers and baseball players, for gangsters and actresses. This ...

Lardner on Baseball
Ring Lardner Jr

The Lyons Press, 2003

From his humble beginnings as a journeyman reporter for the South Bend Times in Indiana, to the height of his popularity when his work was syndicated in more than 115 newspapers with a readership of more than eight million, Ring Lardner was the undisputed master of sports journalism and fiction. In his stories, readers found the authentic lives of their heroes and idols, their hopes and fears, and the vernacular of the diamond in all its bawdy ...

You Know Me Al - Ring Lardner
Ring Lardner

Book Jungle, 2007

First great success of Ring Lardner was "You Know Me Al", a fictional series of letters from a popular baseball hero to his friend, slowly revealing the hero as a semiliterate, crude, conceited, self-deceiving boob. This work was created while Lardner was writing a sports column for The Chicago Tribune, first appeared in The Saturday Evening Post. It was later published in the book form in 1916. You Know Me Al shows Lardner ...

The Young Immigrunts
Ring Lardner

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2007

Tales for Males: Selected for Man's Enjoyment
John Fante, Dorothy Parker, ...

Cadillac Publishing Company, 1945

John Fante contributes the story "Helen, Thy Beauty is to Me" to this anthology of male-centric 1940s fiction and humor with many eminent writers of the time-- and Benjamin Franklin. (Franklin's extremely raucous, racy prose is one of the better kept secrets about his life.) Essays and stories herein include "What Goes on in Ladies Rest Rooms" by C.A. Hamilton, "My Views on Marriage" by W.C. Fields, and"Which is the Vainer Sex?" by Fred C. ...

The Ecstasy of Owen Muir

1 review
Jr. Ring Lardner

Seven Seas Books, 1959

A bit anti-Catholic, but very intriguing.
I read this a few years ago whilst looking for the Ring Lardner in Catcher in the Rye. I knew this was written by the son, but after learning that he was indited as a communist from the McCarthy trials of the Hollywood writers, I couldn't resist. It tells the story of Owen Muir who is a fat, assertive pacifist who grows to be a WWII conscientious objector(I didn't know there was such a thing). ...

Gullible's Travels; and Other Stories

ManyBooks.net, 2008

Five long short stories--excerpts from the life of one zany couple--detail the traumas of breaking into society, a visit from a maiden sister, an evening at the opera, and a couple of exceptional games of bridge, all told in the popular, uncultured vernacular of early twentieth century Chicago.