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“james lardner”

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  • Thinking Big

    Progressive Ideas for a New Era

    Edited by James Lardner, Nathaniel Loewentheil ...
    Times are changing. Instead of obsessing about what they’re against, progressives have begun to think about what they’re for—to prepare once again to play their role as agents of bold ideas and political and social transformation. Finding new confidence and imagination, they have begun to renew their political capital. The essays in this volume draw on that new store of capital to sketch the ... Read more

    $12.39 CAD

  • The Lost Journalism of Ring Lardner

    by Ring Lardner ...
    Ring Lardner’s influence on American letters is arguably greater than that of any other American writer in the early part of the twentieth century. Lauded by critics and the public for his groundbreaking short stories, Lardner was also the country’s best-known journalist in the 1920s and early 1930s, when his voice was all but inescapable in American newspapers and magazines. Lardner’s trenchant, ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

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    A Visit From Young Gloom (Unabridged)

    by Ring Lardner ...
    Narrated by Rose Janousek, James Oakes, Autumn Merrill ...

    Unabridged

    19 min

    In the quaint town of Chastleton, a peculiar visitor arrives, casting a shadow over the lives of its unsuspecting residents. Young Gloom, a mischievous and enigmatic figure, brings with him a whirlwind of chaos and misfortune. As he weaves his way through the town, leaving a trail of broken hearts and shattered dreams in his wake, the people of Chastleton are forced to confront their own ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

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    Hollywood Double Bill - Double Indemnity & Alibi Ike

    by James M. Cain, Ring Lardner ...
    Narrated by Barbara Stanwyck, Fred Macmurray, Jack Carson ...

    Abridged

    1 hour

    Back when going to the movies meant a whole afternoon or evening's entertainment not just the one movie Audiobook radio is proud to be home to the Hollywood Double Bill. Adapted for radio with all the frills including the big stars and hosted by Roger Prior. ... Read more

    $4.11 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Foundations of Fiction, The - Modernism

    Stories that helped shape one of literatures most acclaimed genres

    by Zona Gale, Virginia Woolf, Thomas Wolfe, Susan Glaspell, Sinclair Lewis, Ring Lardner, Katherine Mansfield, James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, F Scott Fitzgerald, Eugene O'Neill, Dorothy Parker, Damon Runyon, D H Lawrence, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Booth Tarkington ...
    Narrated by Laurel Lefkow, Eric Meyers, Eve Karpf ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 15 min

    In this series we turn the pages of classic short stories to put together the literary building blocks of how a particular genre or theme began, how it built its foundations to become the well-loved and well-worn genre that it is today.Do authors have the same ideas at more or less the same time? Or can they sniff out an opportunity as to which way the tastes of an audience are moving.Success ... Read more

    $54.95 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Economics and Ethics After the Fall

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    A Cure for Capitalism

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  • The Globalization Paradox: Democracy and the Future of the World Economy

    Democracy and the Future of the World Economy

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  • So Rich, So Poor

    Why It's so Hard to End Poverty in America

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