The Love Nest and other stories Author:Ring Lardner Ring Lardner is famous as one of America's most skillful but unwilling humorists. People laugh at his stories, although Lardner usually meant them seriously - with the notable exception of the side-splitting "introduction" to this book. But he would probably forgive anybody his laugh if he felt the reader would sympathize in the end with the i... more »nnocent victims of the good-natured boors that appear in the tales. For, while Lardner was one our our very greatest humorists, he also had a definite mission in life - to expose the social moron to the x-ray eyes of satire, and thereby to make us understand the suffering of the dupe even as we laugh with his tormentor; Here are ten of his greatest stories, including "The Love Nest," "Haircut," and "Zone of Quiet."« less