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Description: 1977 Full-Leather. 569 pp. 8vo. Original brown full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Illustrated by Gerry Gersten. A collection of thirty-five works by the sports columnist and short story writer known for satire, whose work was admired by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Virginia Woolf, and Ernest Hemingway. "Lardner's short stories about Jack Keefe, a bush-league baseball player, were first published in the Saturday Evening Post; many were later collected under such titles as The Real Dope (1919) and Treat 'Em Rough: Letters from Jack the Kaiser Killer (1918) in which Keefe is serving in Germany during World War I; "I am out of baseball now and in the big game." During his short but highly successful career as writer Lardner enjoyed great popularity among his readership who came to love his satirical and effective use of vernacular slang, replete with typos, grammatical errors, and run-on sentences. Lardner began his career reporting on sports events, then went on to primarily write for the Chicago White Sox baseball club for various newspapers. After the scandal of the World Series in 1919 Lardner became disenchanted with the league and his writing took on a more jaded tone. Included among his more famous stories are "Golden Honeymoon", "Haircut", "Alibi Ike", "Some Like Them Cold", and "A Day in the Life of Conrad Green". Sometimes compared to Mark Twain, and lauded by such fellow authors as Ernest Hemingway, H. L. Mencken and Virginia Woolf, Lardner also wrote on everyday events and topics, always with his unique blend of cynicism, sardonic wit, and warmth, endearing him to readers across the country and around the world.
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Description: Exclusively for the subscribers to the Limited Edition of THE COLLECTED STORIES OF THE WORLD'S GREATEST WRITERS. Bound in premium full leathers, hubbed spine, distinctive cover design, beautiful illustrations, permanent satin ribbon page marker, gilded page edges, moire endsheets, thread-sewn pages for durability and strength. ** SHIPPING CHARGES: Domestic USA shipping is as quoted (almost free); International shipping requires extra (anywhere from $900-$1100). List of titles: This special collection includes the world's greatest story-tellers published from 1977 to 1985, 1. 222 Fables, Fully Indexed by Aesop // 2. 74 Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen // 3. Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson // 4. 32 Droll Stories by Honoré de Balzac // 5. Thirteen O’Clock – Stories of Several Worlds by Stephen Vincent Benét // 6. In the Midst of Life - Tales of Soldiers and Civilians by Ambrose Bierce // 7. Stories From theDecameronby Giovanni Boccaccio // 8. 18 Stories by Heinrich Böll // 9. Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges // 10. 27 Stories by Erskine Caldwell // 11. Exile and the Kingdom by Albert Camus // 12. Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories by Truman Capote // 13. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll // 14. The Troll Garden & Obscure Destinies by Willa Cather // 15. Three Exemplary Novels by Miguel de Cervantes // 16. Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer // 17. Peasants and 8 Other StoriesAnton Chekhov // 18. Stories by Sidonie Gabrielle Colette // 19. Heart of Darkness and 10 Other Tales by Joseph Conrad // 20. Maggie: A Girl of the Streets and 22 Selected Stories by Stephen Crane // 21. Three Christmas Books by Charles Dickens // 22. Seven Gothic Tales of Isak Dinesen // 23. Notes from Underground, The Gambler, and Poor People by Fyodor Dostoevsky // 24. The Best of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle // 25. The Best (14) Short Stories by Theodore Dreiser // 26. 36 Stories by Alexandre Dumas // 27. Scenes of Clerical Life by George Eliot // 28. These Thirteen by William Faulkner // 29. One Basket by Edna Ferber // 30. 28 Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald // 31. Three Tales by Gustave Flaubert // 32. The Apple Tree and Other Tales by John Galsworthy // 33. Taras Bulba and 8 Other Tales by Nikolai Gogol // 34. This Gun for Hire, The Confidential Agent, The Ministry of Fear by Graham Greene // 35. The Ranger and 3 Other Stories by Zane Grey // 36. 100 Fairy Tales by The Brothers Grimm // 37. The Continental Op by Dashiell Hammett // 38. Wessex Tales by Thomas Hardy // 39. Uncle Remus by Joel Chandler Harris // 40. 16 California Stories by Bret Harte // 41. 35 Stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne // 42. The First Forty-Nine Stories by Ernest Hemingway // 43. 45 Selected Stories by O. Henry // 44. Stories of Five Decades by Hermann Hesse // 45. 4 Tales by E. T. A. Hoffmann // 46. Laughing to Keep from Crying and 25 Jesse Semple Stories by Langston Hughes // 47. 21 Collected Short Stories by Aldous Huxley // 48. The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon Gent. by Washington Irving // 49. Seven Tales by Henry James // 50. The Country of the Pointed Firs and 4 Stories by Sarah Orne Jewett // 51. Dubliners by James Joyce // 52. The Collected Stories of Franz Kafka // 53. 17 Stories by Rudyard Kipling // 54. Round Up by Ring Lardner // 55. Four Short Novels by D. H. Lawrence // 56. 13 Stories by Sinclair Lewis // 57. 16 Tales of the Northland by Jack London // 58. The Magic Barrel and Idiots First by Bernard Malamud // 59. 5 Stories by Thomas Mann // 60. 73 Short Stories by Katherine Mansfield // 61. Mr. Moto’s Three Aces by John P. Marquand // 62. 14 Selected Stories by W. Somerset Maugham // 63. 30 Stories by Guy de Maupassant // 64. Kiss Me Again, Stranger by Daphne du Maurier // 65. 8 Collected Short Stories by Carson McCullers // 66. Billy Budd, Sailor and The (6) Piazza Tales by Herman Melville // 67. Tales of the South Pacific by James A. Michener // 68. 38 Stories by SakiH. H. Munro // 69. Nab
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