Ring Lardner Stories Other Writings Loa 244

Author : Ring Lardner
Publisher : Library of America
Page : 1354 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781598532821

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

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. He was also a sharp and dispassionate observer of the American scene. His best stories—among them such masterpieces as “Haircut,” “The Golden Honeymoon,” “A Caddy’s Diary,” and “The Love Nest”—cast a devastating eye on the hypocrisies, prejudices, and petty scheming of everyday life. In this Library of America edition, editor Ian Frazier surveys the whole sweep of Lardner’s talents, offering contemporary readers his finest stories, the full texts of You Know Me Al, The Big Town, and the long out-of-print The Real Dope, and a generous sampling of his humor pieces, sports reporting, song lyrics, and surrealist playlets. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.

Author : Ring Lardner
Publisher : Library of America
Page : 977 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : FICTION
ISBN : 1461939054

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Ring Lardner: Stories & Other Writings by Ring Lardner Pdf

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. He was also a sharp and dispassionate observer of the American scene. His best stories--among them such masterpieces as "Haircut," "The Golden Honeymoon," "A Caddy's Diary," and "The Love Nest"--cast a devastating eye on the hypocrisies, prejudices, and petty scheming of everyday life. In this Library of America edition, editor Ian Frazier surveys the whole sweep of Lardner's talents, offering contemporary readers his finest stories, the full texts of "You Know Me Al," "The Big Town," and the long out-of-print "The Real Dope," and a generous sampling of his humor pieces, sports reporting, song lyrics, and surrealist playlets.

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : Library of America
Page : 1358 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1982-05-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781598533453

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Herman Melville: Typee, Omoo, Mardi (LOA #1) by Herman Melville Pdf

This first volume of The Library of America's three-volume edition of the complete prose works of Herman Melville includes three romances of the South Seas. Typee and Omoo, based on the young Melville's experiences on a whaling ship, are exuberant accounts of the idyllic life among the "cannibals" in Polynesia. They remained his most popular works well into the 20th century. Mardi("the world" in Polynesian) is a mixture of love story, adventure, and political allegory, set on a mythical Pacific island, that looks forward to the complexities of Moby-Dick. Together, these three romances give early evidence of the genius and daring that make Melville the master novelist of the sea and a precursor of modernist literature. Two companion volumes--Herman Melville: Redburn, White-Jacket, Moby-Dick and Herman Melville: Pierre, Israel Potter, The Piazza Tales, The Confidence Man, Uncollected Prose, and Billy Budd complete this edition of Melville's prose.

Author : Ring Lardner
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1997-05-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781440673849

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Selected Stories by Ring Lardner Pdf

This collection brings together twenty-one of Lardner’s best pieces, including the six Jack Keefe stories that comprise You Know Me, Al, as well as such familiar favorites as “Alibi Ike,” “Some Like Them Cold,” and “Guillible’s Travels.” For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Author : Brooks D. Simpson
Publisher : Library of America
Page : 936 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781598532616

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The Civil War: The Third Year Told by Those Who Lived It by Brooks D. Simpson Pdf

This is the third volume of the ground-breaking eyewitness narrative that has been called a "masterpiece." Spanning the crucial months from January 1863 to March 1864, this third volume of The Library of America’s highly acclaimed four volume series presents an incomparable portrait of a nation at war with itself while illuminating the military and political events that brought the Union closer to victory and slavery closer to destruction. It brings together more than 140 contemporary letters, diary entries, speeches, articles, messages, and poems by more than eighty participants and observers, among them Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, Ulysses S. Grant, William T. Sherman, Robert E. Lee, Frederick Douglass, Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, Mary Chesnut, Clement Vallandigham, Henry Adams, Charlotte Forten, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, and George Templeton Strong, as well as Union officers Robert Gould Shaw, Charles B. Haydon, and Henry Livermore Abbott; Confederate diarists Catherine Edmondston, Kate Stone, and Judith McGuire; and Alabama soldier Samuel Pickens, Iowa housewife Catharine Peirce, Kentucky preacher George Richard Browder, and Kansas clergyman Richard Cordley. The selections include vivid and haunting eyewitness narratives of some of the war’s most famous battles—Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Vicksburg, Fort Wagner, Chickamauga, Chattanooga—as well as firsthand accounts of the merciless guerrilla war in Missouri and Kansas; the Richmond bread riot and the New York draft riots; the controversies surrounding the use of black soldiers and the Lincoln administration’s curtailment of civil liberties; and the struggles of civilians both black and white to survive increasingly harsh wartime conditions. Each volume features a detailed chronology of events, biographical notes about the writers, textual and explanatory notes, and original hand-drawn endpaper maps by expert Civil War cartographer Earl McElfresh. The Civil War: The Final Year Told by Those Who Lived It will be published in 2014.

Author : Ring Lardner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Short stories, American
ISBN : 0330294350

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The Best Short Stories of Ring Lardner by Ring Lardner Pdf

Author : Thomas Jefferson
Publisher : Library of America
Page : 1389 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1984-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781598533484

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Thomas Jefferson: Writings (LOA #17) by Thomas Jefferson Pdf

The most comprehensive collection of the Founding Father’s famous writings, including drafts of the Declaration of Independence At the moment of our nation's birth, Thomas Jefferson defined the issues that still direct our political life. Displaying his extraordinary variety of interests and powerful and precise style, Jefferson’s writings are an invaluable and incisive record of the landscape, inhabitants, life, and daily customs of America in the Revolutionary and early national eras. This book is the most comprehensive one-volume selection of Jefferson ever published. It contains such famous works as "Autobiography" and "Notes on the State of Virginia." A series of addresses, 287 letters, and public and private writings—including the original and revised drafts of the Declaration of Independence—round out the collection, painting not only a portrait of the early days of America but of one of the most influential and controversial figures in our nation's history. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.

Author : Ring Lardner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 563 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1938
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1154380835

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Ring Lardner's Best Stories by Ring Lardner Pdf

Author : Ringgold Wilmer Lardner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:716375225

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The Best Short Stories of Ring Lardner by Ringgold Wilmer Lardner Pdf

Author : Aaron Sheehan-Dean
Publisher : Library of America
Page : 1024 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781598533019

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The Civil War: The Final Year Told by Those Who Lived It by Aaron Sheehan-Dean Pdf

This final installment of the highly acclaimed four-volume series traces events from March 1864 to June 1865. It provides an incomparable portrait of a nation at war with itself, while illuminating the military and political events that brought the Union to final victory, and slavery and secession to their ultimate destruction. Here are more than 150 letters, diary entries, memoir excerpts, speeches, articles, messages, and poems by over a hundred participants and observers, both famous and unsung, including Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, Ulysses S. Grant, William T. Sherman, Robert E. Lee, Frederick Douglass, Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, Harriet Jacobs, Henry Adams, Elizabeth Keckly, and George Templeton Strong, as well as Union and Confederate soldiers; women diarists from North and South; and freed slaves. The selections include vivid and haunting firsthand accounts of legendary battles and campaigns— the Wilderness, Spotsylvania, Cold Harbor, the Atlanta campaign, the Crater, Franklin, Sherman’s march through Georgia and the Carolinas—as well as of the desperate conditions inside Andersonville prison; the sinking of the Confederate raider Alabama; the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment; and the struggles of both black and white civilians to survive the harsh and violent downfall of the Confederacy.

Author : Ring Lardner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1184750613

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Round Up: the Stories of Ring W. Lardner by Ring Lardner Pdf

Author : Ring Lardner, Jr.
Publisher : Pringle Press
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1447479874

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Ring Lardner's Best Stories - Including, Haircut, Alibi Ike, the Golden Honeymoon, and Other Brilliant Stories Originally Collected in Round Up - Toge by Ring Lardner, Jr. Pdf

A collection of the very best short stories by one of the great American writers.

Author : George Simon Kaufman,Edna Ferber
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 936 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2004-10-07
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:39015061381771

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George S. Kaufman & Co.: Broadway Comedies (LOA #152) by George Simon Kaufman,Edna Ferber Pdf

Collects plays written by George Kaufman in collaboration with other writers, including "Dinner at Eight," "Animal Crackers," "Stage Door," and "You Can't Take It With You."

Author : Ring Lardner,David Lodge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Short stories in English - American writers, 1900-1945 - Texts
ISBN : 0460022709

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The Best of Ring Lardner by Ring Lardner,David Lodge Pdf

Author : Ring Lardner
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 19 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781473366343

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Haircut by Ring Lardner Pdf

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 the South Bend Times. Six years later, he published his first successful book, You Know Me Al, an epistolary novel written in the form of letters by 'Jack Keefe', a bush-league baseball player, to a friend back home. A huge hit, the book earned the appreciation of Virginia Woolf and others. Lardner went on to write such well-known short stories as 'Haircut', 'Some Like Them Cold', 'The Golden Honeymoon', 'Alibi Ike', and 'A Day with Conrad Green'.