Lardner (1885-1933), until the day of his death in 1933, hewed to his own line and wrote of life in the baseball dugout, the hoofer's hall bedroom, the fighter's training camp, Tin Pan Alley and other haunts of obscure but ambitious, if slightly inarticulate, Americans. -A Note on The Author of the Collected Short Stories Contents 1.The Maysville Minstrel

2. I Can't Breathe
3. Haircut
4. Alibi Ike
5. Liberty Hall
6. Zone of Quiet
7. Mr. Frisbie
8. Hurry Kane
9. Champion
10. Contract
11. Dinner
12. Women
13. A Day With Conrad Green
14. Old Folks' Christmas
15. Harmony
16. The Love Nest
17. Ex Parte
18. The Golden Honeymoon
19. Now and Then
20. Horseshoes
21. There Are Smiles
22. Anniversary
23. Reunion
24. Travelogue
25. Who Dealt?
26. My Roomy
27. Rhythym
28. Some Like Them Cold
29. Nora
30. Man Not Overboard
31. A Caddy's Diary
32. Mr. and Mrs. Fix-It
33. A Frame-Up
34. Sun Cured
35. The Facts