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Short Fiction

Ring Lardner

  • Stories
  • Book language: English
  • 1148 pages

A collection of short stories by Ring Lardner, an American writer known for humorous, dialogue-rich fiction. Many pieces draw on baseball and everyday life, told in a lively, colloquial voice. The opening story, 'My Roomy,' follows a ballplayer and his troublesome roommate, and the collection is worth listening to for its wit and vivid characters.

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Text source: standardebooks.org · The work is in the public domain.

Contents

  1. My Roomy
  2. Sick ’Em
  3. Horseshoes
  4. Back to Baltimore
  5. Phil and His 4d
  6. Tour No. 2
  7. Alibi Ike
  8. Harmony
  9. The Poor Simp
  10. Where Do You Get That Noise?
  11. Oh, You Bonehead!
  12. Good for the Soul
  13. The Crook
  14. Champion
  15. A One-Man Team
  16. The Facts
  17. Tour Y-10
  18. The Holdout
  19. Ball-a-Hole
  20. Gas, Oil and Air
  21. The Yellow Kid
  22. The Last Night
  23. The Clubby Roadster
  24. A Chip of the Old Block
  25. The Young Immigrunts
  26. The Big Town
  27. A Frame-Up
  28. Some Like Them Cold
  29. The Battle of the Century
  30. A Caddy’s Diary

and 45 more chapters

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