| First and Last Contributor(s): Lardner, Ring (Author) |
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ISBN: 1444659340 ISBN-13: 9781444659344 Publisher: Storck Press OUR PRICE: $37.04 Product Type: Paperback Published: February 2013 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - Great Britain - General - Literary Collections | Essays - Humor | Form - Essays |
| Physical Information: 0.85" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (1.07 lbs) 384 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This early work by Ring Lardner was originally published in 1916 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introduction. 'First and Last' is one of Lardner's many works of fiction. Ring Lardner was born in Niles, Michigan in 1885. He studied engineering at the Armour Institute of Technology in Chicago, but did not complete his first semester. In 1907, Lardner obtained his first job as journalist with the South Bend Times. Six years later, he published his first successful book, You Know Me Al, an epistolary novel written in the form of letters by 'Jack Keefe', a bush-league baseball player, to a friend back home. A huge hit, the book earned the appreciation of Virginia Woolf and others. Lardner went on to write such well-known short stories as 'Haircut', 'Some Like Them Cold', 'The Golden Honeymoon', 'Alibi Ike', and 'A Day with Conrad Green'. |