You Know Me Al (eBook)

Ring Lardner (Autor)

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2016
128 Seiten
Dover Publications (Verlag)
978-0-486-15901-0 (ISBN)

Infos

Humorist and sportswriter Ring Lardner perfectly recaptures the early-20th-century vernacular of the baseball world in this enduring comic gem, a satirical series of fictional letters by a struggling pitcher.

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In the early decades of the twentieth century, newspaperman and humorist Ring Lardner (1885–1933) made America laugh with his hilarious depictions of odd characters in the sporting world, Tin Pan Alley, and Hollywood. His first great success was You Know Me Al, a fictional series of letters from a popular baseball hero to his friend, slyly revealing the letter writer as a crude, conceited, semiliterate, self-deceiving boob.The letters, created while Lardner was writing a sports column for The Chicago Tribune, first appeared in The Saturday Evening Post and were later published in book form in 1918. You Know Me Al reveals Lardner as a satirical master at the peak of his form: a fine albeit misanthropic storyteller with a superb feel for the niceties of characters and speech and a sure instinct for provoking laughter.

Autor

Journalist and short story writer Ring Lardner (1885–1933) was primarily associated with the Chicago Tribune, the home newspaper for his syndicated column. Lardner covered a sports beat for several years, which provided the inspiration for You Know Me Al and other humorous baseball stories.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.2.2016
• Reihe/Serie: Dover Thrift Editions
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• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 130 x 130 mm
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport
• Schlagworte: 1914 • 1916 • America • American Humor • arrogance • Athletes • ball player • ballplayers • barry kraft kraft • baseball players • baseball world • Bedford • black sox • boob • books on american humors • books on arrogances • books on athletes • books on ball players • books on ballplayers • books on baseball players • books on baseball worlds • books on bedford • books on black soxes • books on boob • books on bull durhams • books on callahan • books on comiskey • books on country-boys • books on fast balls • books on friend al • books on groucho • books on hoosiers • books on lajoie • books on leagues • books on naves • books on niles • books on nukes • books on professional baseballs • books on rube • books on shakespearean actors • books on short-stories • books on sophisticated worlds • books on sports journalists • books on sportswriters • books on teammates • books on terre hautes • books on twain • books on ty cobbs • books on white soxes • bull durham • bumbler • bumbling fool • bumpkin • callahan • chicago white • circa 1915 • circumstances change • comiskey • country-boy • deadball • dumb jock • fast ball • fellow players • frequently laugh • friend al • groucho • hilarious detail • hoosier • inflated view • jack keefe keefe • lajoie • leagues • maneuvered • matthewson • Nave • niles • niles michigan • No-Frills • nuke • performed • pitching arm • pre-wwi • professional baseball • rube • rudimentary knowledge • shakespearean actor • Short-Stories • sophisticated world • sore arm • sox scandal • sports journalist • sportswriter • succeeds based • talented pitcher • teammates • terre haute • Twain • ty cobb • Vernacular • walter johnson • white sox
• ISBN-10: 0-486-15901-9 / 0486159019
• ISBN-13: 978-0-486-15901-0 / 9780486159010