The Real Dope
Ring Lardner
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Description
Ring W. Lardner lets baseball player Jack Keefe write home to his friend Al from a troop ship on January 15, in letters full of misspelling and slang. Keefe admits the letters cannot be mailed until the ship crosses, so Al will receive them all at once like a book.
Keefe promises the real dope seen with his own eyes, unlike newspaper reports written far from the front. The comedy comes from his confidence and his grammar alike, as ordinary shipboard life becomes war reporting. Readers get a famous comic voice applied to the First World War crossing.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Ring Lardner |
|---|---|
| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 251 KB |
| LICENSE | PUBLIC_DOMAIN |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |