Best Short Stories of Ring Lardner by Ring Lardner.

Very rare typewritten galley proofs of the “Preface” to Lardner’s first short-story collection, How to Write Short Stories, with four typed carbon sheets showing typed corrections, as well as penciled marks and annotations. The title is handwritten in ink by legendary Scribner’s editor Maxwell Perkins.

In the heady years of the Jazz Age, Ring Lardner was America’s favorite humorist, a prodigally talented improviser equally admired by a popular audience and by literary friends such as F. Scott Fitzgerald and Edmund Wilson. Like Mark Twain before him and James Thurber after, he was a master of many forms and moods, his literary signatures being a virtuoso, surrealistic tomfoolery that looks.

Though Lardner is known for his baseball stories, only about a third of his 130 short stories were written on the subject. He also explored subjects such as marriage and the theater, and wrote a series of plays, the most successful being June Moon, a musical comedy for which he also wrote songs. He also is wrote lyrics and comic sketches.

This early work by Ring Lardner was originally published in the early 20th century and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'Ring Lardner's Best Stories' is a collection of short stories that include 'Champion', 'Harmony', 'Contract', and many more. Ring Lardner was born in Niles, Michigan in 1885. He studied.

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Lardner definition, U.S. short-story writer and journalist. See more.

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This Web site is dedicated to the wonderful world of the short story and to all who enjoy reading shorts stories as I do. I will try to add a few short stories every month. The Golden Honeymoon by Ring Lardner (1885-1933) Approximate Word Count: 6758 M.

But Lardner resisted, preferring to write lucrative short stories that he could sell to magazines and syndicated columns about the events and people that surrounded him. Because so much of what he wrote was topical, his work hasn’t aged as well as Fitzgerald’s or Twain’s. The inside jokes and had-to-be-there moments that captivated.

Lardner, Ring (1885-1933) Ring Lardner's cynical humor made him one of the most popular writers of the 1920s. Throughout his career, first as a sports writer and columnist and then as the author of short stories, light verse and plays, Lardner's works received both popular and critical acclaim.