Ring Lardner
Author
Language
English
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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...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1984.
Language
English
Description
Ring Lardner's masterpiece, You Know Me Al is the story of a semi-literate, boastful, self-deceiving boob and rookie ball-player with the Chicago White Sox told through a series of letters home to his friend Al. A brilliant satire, You Know Me Al is a detailed portrait of the early days of baseball and America at the beginning of the 20th century.
Author
Series
Library of America ; 244
Publisher
Library Of America
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
At the height of the Jazz Age, Ring Lardner was Americas 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...
12) Champion
Publisher
Republic Pictures [Home Video]
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
"An unscrupulous boxer pursues professional success & sexual gratification, at any cost." --
Author
Series
Library of America ; 152
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
If Eugene O'Neill represents the tragic mask of American drama, then George S. Kaufman can easily lay claim to its stimiling counterpart. No other comic dramatist in America has enjoyed more popular success and perennial influence - or been more fortunate in his choice of collaborators, including George and Ira Gershwin, Moss Hart, Edna Ferber, and the Marx Brothers. Here, in the most comprehensive collection of his plays ever assembled, are nine...
