Selected Stories
- ISBN-10
- 1440673845
- ISBN-13
- 9781440673849
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 400
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1997-05-01
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Author
- Ring Lardner
Description
This collection brings together twenty-one of Lardner’s best pieces, including the six Jack Keefe stories that comprise You Know Me, Al, as well as such familiar favorites as “Alibi Ike,” “Some Like Them Cold,” and “Guillible’s Travels.” For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
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