The Portable Ring Lardner. LARDNER, Ring. New York: The Viking Press, Hardcover. Edited by Gilbert Seldes. 16mo. Yellow cloth with green lettering, pictorial dust jacket. vi, pp, (3pp ads). Near fine/very good. Though jacket spine is sunned, it's otherwise bright and sharp, with no edgewear. The portable Ring Lardner. Responsibility Edited, and with an introduction, by Gilbert Seldes. Uniform Title Works. Selections Imprint New York: Viking Press, Physical description vii, p ; 17 cm. Series Viking portable library. Available online At the library. · In Viking published The Portable Ring Lardner, a cross-section of his fiction, essays, newspaper columns, parodies and exquisitely silly nonsense plays, lovingly assembled by Gilbert Seldes.
Available now at bltadwin.ru - Hardcover - New York: Viking, dj - - 1st Edition - Dust Jacket Included - Hardcover first edition - First edition. A one-volume selection of excerpts from his novels, parodies and plays, stories, and miscellanous writings by Lardner, edited and with an introduction by Gilbert Seldes. A title in the Viking Portable Library series. If I understand it correctly, this was Lardner's own compilation of what he felt was his best work up to , which would constitute the bulk of his printed material. Most of his essential stories are here, and Lardner wrote about a dozen or so that were perfect in every nuance. His ear for language was quite possibly the best that ever was. Ring Lardner is known chiefly as a short-story writer, but in his own time was better known as a sportswriter, columnist, and humorist. He also wrote two novel-length works, You Know Me Al (
This new volume, because of larger print, is easier to read than the Viking Portable Ring Lardner, but it is not otherwise an improvement. Indeed the Viking Portable has the advantage of the complete text of “You Know Me, Al” and “The Big Town.” Geismar’s preface does not supply more than the usual demand, nevertheless his selection will not fail anyone who wants the unsettling experience of discovering Ring Lardner or of rediscovering him. In Viking published The Portable Ring Lardner, a cross-section of his fiction, essays, newspaper columns, parodies and exquisitely silly nonsense plays, lovingly assembled by Gilbert Seldes. How to write short stories: (with samples) by Ring Lardner (Book) 50 editions published between 19in English and Undetermined and held by WorldCat member libraries worldwide. "Ring Lardner () was a well-known humorist and sports writer living in Chicago. In , F. Scott Fitzgerald arranged for How to Write Short.
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