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Selected Stories by Lardner Ring
Category: Classic | Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics Ser.
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 publishe ...Show more
The Ecstasy of Owen Muir by Ring Lardner
Category: Fiction
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 McCa ...Show more
The Lost Journalism of Ring Lardner by Ring Lardner
Category: Culture
Ring Lardner's influence on American letters is arguably greater than that of any other American writer in the early part of the twentieth century. Lauded by critics and the public for his groundbreaking short stories, Lardner was also the country's best-known journalist in the 1920s and early 1930s, wh ...Show more
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