[Next Project] Gullible's Travels by Ring Lardner

[Jon Erdman]

Ring Lardner published a five-story collection called "Gullible's Travels, Etc" featuring the same unnamed narrator and several of his associates. The published book had five stories, but a sixth story of this character that didn't make the book was published later. Per a prior discussion, we decided to call the SE edition simply "Gullible's Travels" and include the sixth story that was originally published separately. Compared to the the Short Fiction omnibus I just finished, this should be fast and easy.

Links:

Comment where this plan was already greenlit by Alex:

https://groups.google.com/g/standardebooks/c/Mea8gUoSHL0/m/urg4qOLRCQAJ

Gutenberg:

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/35162

Scan:

https://archive.org/details/bwb_P8-ALV-636/mode/2up

Manual transcription of the sixth story:

https://github.com/homestar92/ring-lardner-transcriptions/blob/main/A%20Friendly%20Game.md

Scan of the sixth story:

https://archive.org/details/sim_saturday-evening-post_1917-05-05_189_45/page/10/mode/2up

Repo with Skeleton:

https://github.com/homestar92/ring-lardner_gullibles-travels

[Alex Cabal]

OK, David will manage with Robin reviwing

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[Jon Erdman]

For the cover, I want to propose "Beach Umbrellas at Blue Point" by William Glackens. I submitted it to the database:

https://standardebooks.org/artworks/william-glackens/beach-umbrellas-at-blue-point

The painting depicts Long Island while the story takes place in Palm Beach, but I don't think the painting really makes that geographical difference too obvious. Since the action is all at the bottom of the painting, it was tricky finding a way to not have the title box obscure anything important, but I think this works pretty well. Thoughts?

[David]

Looks good to me, and I think that crop works well. I've made the assignment in the Artworks DB.

[Jon Erdman]

I have completed proofreading and a final pass of updates. This is now ready for review.

[Robin Whittleton]

Ok, I’ll do this over the weekend.

-Robin

On 30 Apr 2026, at 07:49, Jon Erdman <homes...@gmail.com> wrote:

I have completed proofreading and a final pass of updates. This is now ready for review.

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[Robin Whittleton]

A few issues filed at https://github.com/homestar92/ring-lardner_gullibles-travels/issues/1

-Robin

On 30 Apr 2026, at 07:49, Jon Erdman <homes...@gmail.com> wrote:

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[Robin Whittleton]

OK Alex, I think this is ready for you.

-Robin

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