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Mencken

Heathen Days

Mencken's Autobiography: 1890-1936

Medium: Buch
ISBN: 978-0-8018-8532-7
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press
Erscheinungstermin: 01.09.2006
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With a style that combined biting sarcasm with the "language of the free lunch counter," Henry Louis Mencken shook politics and politicians for nearly half a century. Now, fifty years after Mencken’s death, the Johns Hopkins University Press announces The Buncombe Collection, newly packaged editions of nine Mencken classics: Happy Days, Heathen Days, Newspaper Days, Prejudices, Treatise on the Gods, On Politics, Thirty-Five Years of Newspaper Work, Minority Report, and A Second Mencken Chrestomathy.

With a style that combined biting sarcasm with the "language of the free lunch counter," Henry Louis Mencken shook politics and politicians for nearly half a century. Now, fifty years after Mencken’s death, the Johns Hopkins University Press announces The Buncombe Collection, newly packaged editions of nine Mencken classics: Happy Days, Heathen Days, Newspaper Days, Prejudices, Treatise on the Gods, On Politics, Thirty-Five Years of Newspaper Work, Minority Report, and A Second Mencken Chrestomathy.

In the third volume of his autobiography, H. L. Mencken covers a range of subjects, from Hoggie Unglebower, the best dog trainer in Christendom, to his visit to the Holy Land, where he looked for the ruins of Gomorrah.


Produkteigenschaften


  • Artikelnummer: 9780801885327
  • Medium: Buch
  • ISBN: 978-0-8018-8532-7
  • Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press
  • Erscheinungstermin: 01.09.2006
  • Sprache(n): Englisch
  • Auflage: Erscheinungsjahr 2006
  • Produktform: Kartoniert
  • Gewicht: 515 g
  • Seiten: 320
  • Format (B x H x T): 152 x 229 x 19 mm
  • Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt
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Henry Louis Mencken was born in Baltimore in 1880 and remained a lifelong resident. Opinionated and controversial, he wrote columns for the Baltimore Evening Sun that earned him a national reputation. He died in 1956.