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Treat'em Rough: Letters from Jack the Kaiser Killer
Treat'em Rough Letters from Jack the Kaiser Killer Author:Ring Lardner Ring Larder was one of Ernest Hemingway's fravorite writers. As a beginning writer Hemingway sometimes wrote under the pen name Ring Lardner, Jr., a nod to his literary hero Ring Lardner. — Treat'em Rough - Letters From Jack the Kaiser Killer is a book on the First World War it is written in the form of letters. The ltters made heavy use of the f... more »ictional author's idiosyncratic vernacular. Treat'em Rough uses satire in much the same way as Mark Twain's The Innocents Abroad.
"Ring Lardner thought of himself as primarily a sports columnist whose stuff wasn't destined to last, and he held to that absurd belief even after his first masterpiece, Ring Lardner's earned the awed appreciation of Virginia Woolf, among other very serious, unfunny people", wrote Andrew Ferguson, who named it, in a Wall Street Journal article, one of the top five writers of American humor.« less