You Know Me Al
Title | You Know Me Al PDF eBook |
Author | Ring Lardner |
Publisher | Barnes & Noble Publishing |
Pages | 164 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780760758335 |
Ring Lardner, America's great humorist and shortstory writer, began his career as a sports writer. Because of his interest in baseball, he began putting stories in his newspaper column that were purportedly written by unlettered athletes. Lardner, who had an excellent ear for dialogue, actually wrote these stories in the voice of the fictional rookie ballplayer Jack Keefe, a White Sox pitcher, who writes letters to his friend Al Blanchard back home in Bedford, Indiana. Several streams of American comic tradition merge in You Know Me Al: the comic letter, the wisecrack, the braggart character, the use of sporting vocabulary and fractured English as a means to apologetics. This collection of short stories revealed Lardner's talent for the sports idiom he made famous. Usually cynical and pessimistic, his stories are peopled by ordinary characters. Lardner often used his own experiences as the model or inspiration for the fiction he wrote.
Ring Lardner's You Know Me Al
Title | Ring Lardner's You Know Me Al PDF eBook |
Author | Ring Lardner |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P |
Pages | 184 |
Release | 1979 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN |
The Annotated Baseball Stories of Ring W. Lardner, 1914-1919
Title | The Annotated Baseball Stories of Ring W. Lardner, 1914-1919 PDF eBook |
Author | Ring Lardner |
Publisher | Stanford University Press |
Pages | 654 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780804729635 |
An annotated and copiously illustrated edition of the 24 short stories published between 1914 and 1919 by Ring Lardner, which include the stories collected later and known as "You know me, Al."
Lardner on Baseball
Title | Lardner on Baseball PDF eBook |
Author | Ring Lardner |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Baseball |
ISBN | 9781585747849 |
A collection of stories and essays on America's favorite pastime, from the most popular writer ever on baseball.
Selected Stories
Title | Selected Stories PDF eBook |
Author | Ring Lardner |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 401 |
Release | 1997-05-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1440673845 |
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 best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
You Don't Know Me But You Don't Like Me
Title | You Don't Know Me But You Don't Like Me PDF eBook |
Author | Nathan Rabin |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 262 |
Release | 2013-06-11 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1451626886 |
A writer's journey with the fan bases of Phish and Insane Clown Posse describes his unexpected discovery of how both groups have tapped the human need for community, a finding that coincided with his diagnosis of bipolar disorder.
Ring Around the Bases
Title | Ring Around the Bases PDF eBook |
Author | Matthew Joseph Bruccoli |
Publisher | Univ of South Carolina Press |
Pages | 626 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9781570035319 |
This collection of fiction by writer, critic and sports editor Ring Lardner celebrates the American pastime of baseball.