Ring Lardner (Critical Survey of Short Fiction)
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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 (1915) and The Big Town (1921), and he tried his hand at writing musical comedies, June Moon (1929; in collaboration with George S. Kaufman) being his only successful one. Most of Lardner’s nonfictional prose remains uncollected, although a few works have appeared in book...
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