Ring Lardner

Gullible's Travels, etc. by Ring Lardner is a delightful collection of short stories that offers readers a humorous and insightful glimpse into the foibles and follies of everyday life in early 20th-century America. Through a series of witty and irreverent vignettes, Lardner explores a wide range of topics, from the quirks of human behavior to the absurdities of modern society. From the antics of small-town eccentrics to the misadventures of love-struck...

At the height of the Jazz Age, Ring Lardner was Americas most beloved humorist, equally admired by a popular audience and by literary friends like F. Scott Fitzgerald and Edmund Wilson. A sports writer who became a sensation with his comic baseball bestseller, "You Know Me Al," Lardner had a rare gift for inspired nonsense and an ear attuned to the rhythms and hilarious oddities of American speech. He was also a sharp and dispassionate observer of...

Collects forty short stories published between 1915 and 2015, from writers that include Ernest Hemingway, John Updike, and Alice Munro that exemplify their era and stand the test of time.