Selected Stories

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.Edited with an Introduction by Jonathan Yardley

Introduction by Jonathan Yardley
Suggestions for Further Reading
A Note on the Text
You Know Me Al
A Busher's Letters Home
The Busher Comes Back
The Busher's Honeymoon
A New Busher Breaks In
The Busher's Kid
The Busher Beats It Hence

CALL FOR MR. KEEFE!
ALONG CAME RUTH
ALIBI IKE
GULLIBLE'S TRAVELS
CHAMPION
THE FACTS
HARMONY
MY ROOMY
THE YOUNG IMMIGRUNTS

The Big Town
Quick Returns
Ritchey
Lady Perkins
Only One
Katie Wins a Home

SOME LIKE THEM COLD

Jonathan Yardley is the book critic of and a columnist for the Washington Post. His books include biographies of Ring Lardner and Frederick Exley. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Criticism in 1981.