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Author : Damon Runyon
Publisher : Garden City, N.Y., The Sun dial Press [1943]
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1944
Category : New York (N.Y.)
ISBN : UOM:49015003203495
Author : Damon Runyon
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547728535
This compilation of the American newspaperman and short story writer Damon Runyon's works is sure to leave you in stitches. Runyon was best known for his short tales celebrating the world of Broadway in New York City, a world that grew out of the Prohibition era of the early twentieth century. To New Yorkers of his generation, a "Damon Runyon character" evoked a distinctive social type from Brooklyn or Midtown Manhattan. He spun humorous and sentimental tales of gamblers, hustlers, actors, and gangsters, few of whom go by "square" names, preferring instead colorful monikers such as "Nathan Detroit", "Benny Southstreet", "Big Jule", "Harry the Horse", "Good Time Charley", "Dave the Dude", or "The Seldom Seen Kid".
Author : Damon Runyon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1973201909
Alfred Damon Runyon (October 4, 1880 - December 10, 1946) was an American newspaperman and short story writer.He was best known for his short stories celebrating the world of Broadway in New York City that grew out of the Prohibition era. To New Yorkers of his generation, a "Damon Runyon character" evoked a distinctive social type from the Brooklyn or Midtown demi-monde. The adjective "Runyonesque" refers to this type of character as well as to the type of situations and dialog that Runyon depicted.[4] He spun humorous and sentimental tales of gamblers, hustlers, actors, and gangsters, few of whom go by "square" names, preferring instead colorful monikers such as "Nathan Detroit", "Benny Southstreet", "Big Jule", "Harry the Horse", "Good Time Charley", "Dave the Dude", or "The Seldom Seen Kid". His distinctive vernacular style is known as "Runyonese": a mixture of formal speech and colorful slang, almost always in present tense, and always devoid of contractions. He is credited with coining the phrase "Hooray Henry", a term now used in British English to describe an upper-class, loud-mouthed, arrogant twit.
Author : Damon Runyon
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781446549087
I have made this selection of Damon Runyon’s stories with the idea of showing as many aspects as possible of his narrative genius, ranging as they do from the most uproarious farce to such sadness as goes to the depths of the heart. The note of pathos is not often touched, it is true: when it is, it gains force from the contrast with its setting of quaint, unemotional, unconscious cynicism. If, after reading The Lily of St. Pierre in this book you do not agree with that judgment, then—as Runyon’s narrator would say—you must be such a guy as will never be moved by anything short of an earthquake.
Author : Damon Runyon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : Broadway (New York, N.Y.)
ISBN : UOM:39015002215039
Author : Damon Runyon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:19789097
Author : Damon Runyon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 758 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Short stories, English
ISBN : UOM:39015001592453
Author : Damon Runyon
Publisher : Penguin Books, Limited (UK)
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Broadway (New York, N.Y.)
ISBN : 0141188332
Slick, upbeat and funny, these stories inspired the popular musical and film Guys and Dolls. 'Of all the high players this country ever sees, there is no doubt but that the guy they call the Sky is the highest. He will bet all he has, and nobody can bet any more than this'.
Author : Damon Runyon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1985-09-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0899877451
Author : Will Viharo
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2010-09-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780557600373
A nostalgic fable about a guy only a foot tall - lost, alone and looking for love and friendship in a wacky, wondrous world of hoboes, gangsters, gamblers, gun molls, showgirls, and other colorful characters.
Author : Rosemary Edghill
Publisher : Forge Books
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466878136
Rosemary Edghill cast a keenly observant, friendly, yet faintly amused eye on an intriguing American micro-culture. The Bast novels offer a very new view of the practitioners of a very old faith. Edghill allows that there's still magic in the air. Rosemary Edghill's Bast novels are a real treat. Bell, Book, and Murder contains all three Bast novels, Speak Daggers to Her, Book of Moons, and The Bowl of Night (excerpted in USA Today). At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author : Joseph James Reisler
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-25
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781493052219
Burned out by working the baseball beat for years, in the summer of 1922 Damon Runyon was looking for a new sport to cover for The New York American as a change of pace. Having pilloried golf just a few years before, he went to Saratoga that August to sample horse racing and found that “There, right in front of him, were so many of the characters he so loved from his time covering the comings and goings of the Manhattan night crowd.” This was just the tonic Runyon needed to emerge from his malaise. Runyon didn’t just cover the great races and which horse won: he would get to the track days before and roam along the backstretch, speaking with the trainers, the gamblers, the rich owners, and the wise guys, many of which became model characters in his fiction and in the musical Guys and Dolls. This book collects the best of Runyon’s horse racing columns to 1936, when he moved on to other beats.
Author : Damon Runyon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798742861942
From 1917 to 1946, Damon Runyon, one of America's greatest writers, followed and befriended Jack Dempsey, one of America's greatest sportsmen, and now, for the first time, almost 200 reports of their interviews, meetings, opinions, and whimsy, as well as Dempsey's fights, are gathered together for the first time. Boxer Jack Dempsey and author Damon Runyon crossed paths frequently and often, from Jack's ascension to the gloried heights of world champion after triumphing over Jess Willard in Toledo in 1919, to his victories in the resined ring against Tommy Gibbons and Luis Ángel Firpo in 1923.In subsequent years Dempsey profited from his position as the "King of Fistiana," as Runyon described him, until the loss of Jack's crown to Gene Tunney in 1926. There followed the comeback fight with Jack Sharkey in 1927, and the second controversial defeat to Tunney a few months later (in what has been called The Battle of the Long Count). But Dempsey persisted with a grueling tour of exhibition fights through Depression-era America, followed by a restless life as a businessman and referee. The events of Dempsey's life have been the subject of heated arguments that have been reheated numerous times by all and sundry, yet Runyon has the advantage over other commentators by dint of having actually been there, ringside, in the gym, in the dressing rooms, offices and cafes, with Dempsey before and after the fights to give a unique and privileged view of events as they happened. This book, which collects three previously published volumes under one cover (1: A TALE OF TWO FISTS; 2: THE CHAMPION; and 3: KING OF FISTIANA) provides a definitive glimpse into the life and times of Jack Dempsey, who lost his crown but never lost the love and affection of the fans, and could, for many years, legitimately claim to be the most popular sportsman in the world. The Author: Damon Runyon became a worldwide literary figure after the publication and subsequent film adaptations (like Guys and Dolls) of his Broadway short stories in the 1930s, but before, during and after that time he was first and foremost one of America's greatest newspaper columnists. The Editor: Paul Duncan has edited and written over 150 books achieving sales of over one million copies worldwide.
Author : Michael Kurland
Publisher : Titan Books (US, CA)
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781783295395
Fine and Dandy chorine Lydia Laurent’s strangled, nude body, accompanied by two complete suits of clothing, has been found in Central Park, and now Two-Headed Mary and Billie Trask are missing too. Since the police are as helpless as they always are in 1935, it falls to New York World columnist Alexander Brass and his cheerfully wide-eyed sidekick Morgan DeWitt to dig up the truth.
Author : Les Standiford
Publisher : Akashic Books
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2007-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781936070381
“For such a sun-stoked place, Miami sure is shady . . . this batch of dirty deep South Florida fiction might just send you packing . . . your own heat.” —SunPost Don’t let the fabulous weather, the beach bodies, and the high-end boutiques fool you. There is a darkness to Miami that can hit just as hard as a hurricane. If by day, the streets are lined with tourists, at night the gangsters, drug dealers, and desperate come out to play. It’s this Miami that has captured the imagination of some of the city’s best writers. Miami Noir includes stories by James W. Hall, Barbara Parker, John Dufresne, Paul Levine, Carolina Garcia-Aguilera, Tom Corcoran, Christine Kling, George Tucker, Kevin Allen, Anthony Dale Gagliano, David Beaty, Vicki Hendricks, John Bond, Preston Allen, Lynne Barrett, and Jeffrey Wehr. “For different reasons these stories cultivate a little something special, a radiance, a humanity, even a grace, In the midst of the noir gloom, and thereby set themselves apart. Variety, familiarity, mood and tone, and the occasional gem of a story make Miami Noir a collection to savor.” —The Miami Herald “Murder is nothing new in Miami—or any other big city, for that matter. But seldom has it been so entertaining as it is in the 16 short stories included in Miami Noir.” —Palm Beach Daily News “This well-chosen short story collection isn’t just a thoughtful compilation of work by some of South Florida’s best and upcoming writers. Each Miami Noir story also is a window on a different part of Miami-Dade and its melting pot of cultures.” —South Florida Sun-Sentinel