Selected stories
By: Ring Lardner ; edited with an introduction by Jonathan Yardley.
Contributors: Yardley, Jonathan.
Series: Penguin twentieth-century classics
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 379
Subjects: Baseball stories, American.; Humorous stories, American.; United States -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction.
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. xix).