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This book is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS series. The creators of this series are united by passion for literature and driven by the intention of making all public domain books available in printed format again - worldwide. At tredition we believe that a great book never goes out of style. Several mostly non-profit literature projects provide content to tredition. To support their good work, tredition donates a portion of the proceeds from e...

This book is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS series. The creators of this series are united by passion for literature and driven by the intention of making all public domain books available in printed format again - worldwide. At tredition we believe that a great book never goes out of style. Several mostly non-profit literature projects provide content to tredition. To support their good work, tredition donates a portion of the proceeds from e...

This book is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS series. The creators of this series are united by passion for literature and driven by the intention of making all public domain books available in printed format again - worldwide. At tredition we believe that a great book never goes out of style. Several mostly non-profit literature projects provide content to tredition. To support their good work, tredition donates a portion of the proceeds from e...

Excerpt from Gullible's Travels, Etc Well, if I hadn't of looked at my Missus then we'd of been.0. K. But my eyes hap pened to light on where she was settin' and she was chewin' her lips so's she wouldn't cry. That finished me. I was just I says to Mrs. Hatch. They ain't nothin' I'd like bet ter than grand op'ra. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.co...

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These two humourous books were originally published alongside each other in 1923. The first 'Say it with Oil' contains a number of humourous remarks regarding the habits and complaints of wives. The second 'Say it with Bricks' contains a humourous account of the habits and complaints of husbands. Ring Lardner, born in 1885, began his writing career as a journalist in 1907. Six years later, he published his first successful book, You Know Me Al...

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Tre tra i più bei racconti di Lardner a narrare con ironia inconfondibile i legami matrimoniali. Una coppia di coniugi parte per St. Petersburg, la Palm Beach dei poveri, per festeggiare cinquant'anni di matrimonio. L'avarizia è un gran brutto difetto, ma l'ironia ha il potere di sdrammatizzare anche le situazioni più imbarazzanti. E poi Irma, giovane sposa in luna di miele alle Bahamas, ebbra di luoghi paradisiaci e di un marito premuroso. Tr...

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Jack Keefe is a talented, brash, and conceited young bush-league pitcher. Impervious to both advice and sarcasm, Keefe rises to the heights, but his inability to learn from his mistakes might just be his undoing. Told through a series of letters written from Keefe to his friend, Al, this baseball classic maintains a balance between the funny and the moving, the pathetic and the glorious. Nostalgic in its view of pre-World War I America, a time...

Excerpt from Treat 'Em Rough: Letters From Jack the Kaiser Killer Well Al a lot of things come off since the last time I wrote to you. We left Chi Wed. Noon and you ought to seen the crowd down to the Union station to bid us good by. Everybodys wifes and sisters and mothers was there and they was all crying in 40 different languages and the women wasn't allowed through the gates so fare well kisses was swapped between the iron spokes in the g...

Excerpt from Own Your Own Home Brother Charley. I bet when you here what I Grace has made up our minds you Mary will wisht you was doing the same thing or may be you will follow our exampel do the same thing I hope you will because its the only way to live when you got chil' dern. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of...

Excerpt from The Big Town This is just a clipping from one of the New York papers, a little kidding piece that they had in about me two years ago. It says. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving ...

Excerpt from Bib Ballads Dear Parents: - Don't imagine, please, It's in a boastful spirit I fashion verses such as these, That's not the truth or near it. A hundred or a thousand, yes, A million kids there may be Who aren't one iota less Attractive than this baby. I'll venture that your household has As valuable a treasure As mine, but mine I know, and as For yours, I've not that pleasure. And that is why my book's about Just one. O Dad...

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Excerpt from The Real Dope Well Al it is against the rules to tell you when we left the old U. S. Or where we come away from because the pro German spy might get a hold of a man's letter some way and then it would be good night because he would send a telegram to where the submarines is located at and they wouldn't send no 1 or 2 submarines after us but the whole Ger man navy would get after us because they would figure that if they ever got ...

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