The Big Town

Name: The Big Town
Author: Ring Lardner

by Ring Lardner

Novel satirizing small-town Americana through a rural family's New York misadventure

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Ring Lardner

Ring Lardner was a master satirist of American vernacular life who used the fictional letter, monologue, and sketch to expose the vanity and mediocrity of ordinary Americans. His influence on Hemingway and Fitzgerald was significant.

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