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La ironía de Ring Lardner, su imaginación brillante y su capacidad para dibujar situaciones centradas en el corazón de los hechos cotidianos de la vida lo convirtieron en uno de los nombres más significativos de la narrativa breve norteamericana de la primera mitad del siglo XX. En 1905 empezó una extraordinaria carrera como periodista deportivo, y quince años más tarde era ya un columnista de referencia. Humorista enemigo de la petulancia, la...

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our cont...

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our cont...

Col suo umorismo amaro e graffiante Ring Lardner fotografa la società americana fra le due guerre mondiali senza risparmiare nessuno, nemmeno a Natale.? Ecco dunque Billy Bowen, brillante americano medio col vizio della bottiglia, fidanzarsi? con la dolce e ingenua Ellen McDonald: i regali natalizi per ?la numerosa famiglia di lei, complice la visita inaspettata di ?un vecchio compagno di baldorie, funzioneranno da cartina tornasole per la lor...

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You Know me Al" is a classic of baseball--the game and the community. Jack Keefe, one of literature's greatest characters, is talented, brash, and conceited. Self-assured and imperceptive, impervious to both advice and sarcasm, Keefe rises to the heights, but his inability to learn makes for his undoing. Through a series of letters from this bush-league pitcher to his not-quite-anonymous friend Al, Lardner maintains a balance between the funny...

These "sketches" comprise commentary that has appeared in various publications, including "Good Housekeeping, The Saturday Evening Post, The New Yorker, Collier's", and "Trotter and Pacer", throughout Lardner's illustrious career.

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 bes...

I promised the Wife that if anybody ast me what kind of a time did I have at Palm Beach I'd say I had a swell time. And if they ast me who did we meet I'd tell 'em everybody that was worth meetin'. And if they ast me didn't the trip cost a lot I'd say Yes, but it was worth the money. I promised her I wouldn't spill none o' the real details. But if you can't break a promise you made to your own wife what kind of a promise can you break? Answer ...

This collection of fiction by writer, critic and sports editor Ring Lardner celebrates the American pastime of baseball.

The classic novel The Ecstasy of Owen Muir is the story of what happens in 1940s America when an idealistically, fiercely honest young man, with no strong religious affiliation, marries a Roman Catholic woman. In this brilliantly comic and pungent tale, Lardner dissects the thought control of the McCarthy era, business ethics, racial intolerance, attitudes toward sex, the Manhattan nightclub set, judicial procedures, and other social phenomeno...

Ring Lardner first burst upon the literary scene with his greatest popular success, "You Know Me Al". A sportswriter by trade, Lardner had a superb ear for regional peculiarities in speech and was loved for his sense of humor. Funny, sarcastic, sometimes bitter but always ironic, Lardner understood Americans-- their desires, their dreams, and their disappointments. Contained in "Haircut and Other Stories" are some of Lardner's best-known piece...