Ring Lardner
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Library of America volume 244
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English
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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...
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"At one time Ring Lardner's baseball articles reached millions of readers through hundreds of newspapers throughout America, and admirers of his writing included F. Scott Fitzgerald and Edmond Wilson. He was as familiar to Americans in the 1920s as Charles Lindbergh, Calvin Coolidge, and Babe Ruth. His articles about the players he knew, his World Series coverage, his poems, parodies, and jokes were unlike any other baseball reporting ever written,...
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English
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The Maysville minstrel -- I can't breathe -- Haircut -- Alibi Ike -- Liberty Hall -- Zone of quiet -- Mr. Frisbie -- Hurry Kane -- Champion -- A day with Conrad Green -- Old folks' Christmas Harmony -- The love nest -- Ex parte -- The golden honeymoon -- Horseshoes -- There are smiles -- Anniversary --Reunion -- Travelogue -- Who delt? -- My roomy -- Some like them cold -- A caddy's diary -- Mr. & Mrs Fix-it.