Author: Damon Runyon
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ISBN: 9781973201908
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Languages : en
Pages : 456
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Alfred Damon Runyon (October 4, 1880 - December 10, 1946) was an American newspaperman and short story writer.He was best known for his short stories celebrating the world of Broadway in New York City that grew out of the Prohibition era. To New Yorkers of his generation, a "Damon Runyon character" evoked a distinctive social type from the Brooklyn or Midtown demi-monde. The adjective "Runyonesque" refers to this type of character as well as to the type of situations and dialog that Runyon depicted.[4] He spun humorous and sentimental tales of gamblers, hustlers, actors, and gangsters, few of whom go by "square" names, preferring instead colorful monikers such as "Nathan Detroit", "Benny Southstreet", "Big Jule", "Harry the Horse", "Good Time Charley", "Dave the Dude", or "The Seldom Seen Kid". His distinctive vernacular style is known as "Runyonese": a mixture of formal speech and colorful slang, almost always in present tense, and always devoid of contractions. He is credited with coining the phrase "Hooray Henry", a term now used in British English to describe an upper-class, loud-mouthed, arrogant twit.
Author: Damon Runyon
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Short stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 758
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![Runyon on Broadway. Omnibus Volume Containing All the Stories from More Than Somewhat, Furthermore, Take it Easy. [With a Portrait.]. PDF](https://books.google.com/books/content/images/frontcover/1jOWoAEACAAJ?fife=w80-h100)
Author: Damon Runyon (the Elder.)
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Author: Iddon, Don
Publisher: London : Constable, [1954, reprinted 1965]
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 720
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![Runyon on Broadway. Omnibus Volume Containing All the Stories from More Than Somewhat, Furthermore, Take it Easy. [With Illustrations and a Portrait.]. PDF](https://books.google.com/books/content/images/frontcover/39F8ngEACAAJ?fife=w80-h100)
Author: Damon Runyon
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 720
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Author: Damon (Schriftsteller) Runyon
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 720
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Author: Damon Runyon
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 590
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This compilation of the American newspaperman and short story writer Damon Runyon's works is sure to leave you in stitches. Runyon was best known for his short tales celebrating the world of Broadway in New York City, a world that grew out of the Prohibition era of the early twentieth century. To New Yorkers of his generation, a "Damon Runyon character" evoked a distinctive social type from Brooklyn or Midtown Manhattan. He spun humorous and sentimental tales of gamblers, hustlers, actors, and gangsters, few of whom go by "square" names, preferring instead colorful monikers such as "Nathan Detroit", "Benny Southstreet", "Big Jule", "Harry the Horse", "Good Time Charley", "Dave the Dude", or "The Seldom Seen Kid".
Author: Damon Runyon
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 503
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Author: Damon Runyon
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 321
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Author: Damon Runyon
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American fiction (Fictional works by one author).
Languages : en
Pages : 505
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