"The time has come to restore Ring Lardner to his rightful place in the pantheon of the American short story alongside his contemporaries Hemingway, S. Anderson, Fitzgerald and Faulkner." Moshe Ron And one day, after eighty years of waiting, Ring Lardner's works were translated into Hebrew. Essential, simple but seminal works that do the impossible in literature: they raise a permanent, "silly" and broad smile across all types of readers throughout the reading. Why? Because Ring Lardner knows how to be insanely funny, charming, ironic, playful, sour and sweet, uncompromising: one of the ultimate artists of the short story genre in the twentieth century. Reading Lardner's works unfolds before us an X-ray, a map, a masterful portrait of the United States of old: of its people, landscapes and common diseases. Lardner's characters are always preoccupied with the pursuit of money, recognition, love and comfort. They run from the opera to a baseball game, and between family gatherings to events taking place on the outskirts of the city. An entire literary world, a colorful and vast painting of a culture that has become "global" over time. Equally loved and appreciated by Faulkner, Salinger, Virginia Woolf, Scott Fitzgerald and Hemingway, Lardner's stories are an essential literary addition to the shelf of translated literature in Israel, and we are as excited about the event as if we had written the book ourselves. - - - "He has given outlet and pleasure to many millions." Scott Fitzgerald "My favorite writer is my brother D. B., followed by Ring Lardner." J. D. Salinger in "The Catcher in the Rye" "With talent and lightness that go beyond the ordinary, with brushstrokes that are no less agile, with a confident touch, with the ability to discern the subtlest of details." Virginia Woolf "The Mine of Real America." H. L. Mencken