Author: H. L. Mencken
Publisher: Dufour Editions
ISBN: 0802360246
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
H.L. Mencken, in his illustrious career as a journalist, made his reputation with satirical writing and controversial ideals. Although his is a name not customarily associated with short fiction, it was his first literary love. From 1900 to 1919, he published nearly 60 stories and short-shorts, sometimes pseudonymously. Here for the first time, 30 of Mencken's thoroughly entertaining stories are collected, showcasing Mencken's wit and skill in a medium for which he is not well known. Meet a bumbling anarchist newspaper editor; the `Charmed Circle' of Long Island in a story strikingly prescient of F. Scott Fitzgerald; a shop owner whose mannequins belie a horrific secret; and a pair of wily entrepreneurs working in the Caribbean, among plenty of other excellent, amusing, and memorable stories. "Superb, clever, or hilarious use of language... Read "Epithalamium," a sendup of the social rigmarole of marriage for its exquisite choice of words, or the Poe-esque "The Window of Horrors," about a clothier and his obsession with life-like mannequins, for its chills. For quintessential Mencken, read "The Man of God," whose lowly grocer becomes an evangelist."-Publishers Weekly
Bluebeard's Goat and Other Stories
Author: H. L. Mencken
Publisher: Dufour Editions
ISBN: 0802360246
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
H.L. Mencken, in his illustrious career as a journalist, made his reputation with satirical writing and controversial ideals. Although his is a name not customarily associated with short fiction, it was his first literary love. From 1900 to 1919, he published nearly 60 stories and short-shorts, sometimes pseudonymously. Here for the first time, 30 of Mencken's thoroughly entertaining stories are collected, showcasing Mencken's wit and skill in a medium for which he is not well known. Meet a bumbling anarchist newspaper editor; the `Charmed Circle' of Long Island in a story strikingly prescient of F. Scott Fitzgerald; a shop owner whose mannequins belie a horrific secret; and a pair of wily entrepreneurs working in the Caribbean, among plenty of other excellent, amusing, and memorable stories. "Superb, clever, or hilarious use of language... Read "Epithalamium," a sendup of the social rigmarole of marriage for its exquisite choice of words, or the Poe-esque "The Window of Horrors," about a clothier and his obsession with life-like mannequins, for its chills. For quintessential Mencken, read "The Man of God," whose lowly grocer becomes an evangelist."-Publishers Weekly
Publisher: Dufour Editions
ISBN: 0802360246
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
H.L. Mencken, in his illustrious career as a journalist, made his reputation with satirical writing and controversial ideals. Although his is a name not customarily associated with short fiction, it was his first literary love. From 1900 to 1919, he published nearly 60 stories and short-shorts, sometimes pseudonymously. Here for the first time, 30 of Mencken's thoroughly entertaining stories are collected, showcasing Mencken's wit and skill in a medium for which he is not well known. Meet a bumbling anarchist newspaper editor; the `Charmed Circle' of Long Island in a story strikingly prescient of F. Scott Fitzgerald; a shop owner whose mannequins belie a horrific secret; and a pair of wily entrepreneurs working in the Caribbean, among plenty of other excellent, amusing, and memorable stories. "Superb, clever, or hilarious use of language... Read "Epithalamium," a sendup of the social rigmarole of marriage for its exquisite choice of words, or the Poe-esque "The Window of Horrors," about a clothier and his obsession with life-like mannequins, for its chills. For quintessential Mencken, read "The Man of God," whose lowly grocer becomes an evangelist."-Publishers Weekly
Classroom Libraries for Public Schools
Author: Buffalo Public Library (Buffalo, N.Y.)
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
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Languages : en
Pages : 318
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Class-room Libraries for Public Schools
Author: Buffalo Public Library (Buffalo, N.Y.)
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Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 184
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Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 184
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Critical Survey of Short Fiction
Author: Frank Northen Magill
Publisher:
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Surveys forty-nine writers in the field of short fiction, providing a list of the author's principal collections, dates of publication, a biographical sketch, and a critical analysis of the author's works.
Publisher:
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Surveys forty-nine writers in the field of short fiction, providing a list of the author's principal collections, dates of publication, a biographical sketch, and a critical analysis of the author's works.
Magill Index to Critical Surveys
Author: Frank Northen Magill
Publisher:
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 340
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A Charge for France
Author: John Heard (Jr.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 354
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Languages : en
Pages : 354
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Publications
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Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 328
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Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 328
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Lippincott's Monthly Magazine
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Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1022
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Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1022
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A Transaction in Hearts
Author: Edgar Saltus
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Languages : en
Pages : 212
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Languages : en
Pages : 212
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The Athenæum
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Languages : en
Pages : 882
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Languages : en
Pages : 882
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