Ring Lardner: Stories & Other Writings (Loa #244)

by Ring Lardner

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1598532537
• ISBN13: 9781598532531
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: Library of America
• Length: 974 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.0" x 7.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher