Description: “EACH GENERATION has its pinch of salt. Ring Lardner is ours." So said Lewis Mumford in his New York Herald Tribune review of Round Up when this collection of Ring Lardner's stories was published in November, 1933. Round Up was a Literary Guild selection at the time of its publication. It was one of the few collections of short stories that disproved the old adage that "short stories don't sell” and it has sold steadily ever since. The reason is easy to see: Ring Lardner reproduces American life so well that the flavor of his stories never becomes dull. His baseball stories are classics. You Know Me Al has become a phrase in our language. His stories of family life, barbed as they may be, are nevertheless true to life, perceptive, and first-class reporting. As Mr. Mumford said, "Out of the boiler-plate of current slang he has achieved a living speech; out of canned goods and synthetic breakfast foods he has produced, with consummate art, a seven-course dinner." This special edition of ROUND UP has been made available to the Armed Forces of the United States through an arrangement with the original publisher, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. Armed Services Editions, Inc., a non-profit organization sponsored by the Council on Books in Wartime
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Return shipping will be paid by: Seller
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 30 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Binding: Softcover, Wraps
Language: English
Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Collector's Edition
Author: RING LARDNER
Publisher: Armed Services Edition
Topic: Short Stories
Subject: Literature & Fiction
Modified Item: No
Original/Facsimile: Original
Year Printed: 1945
