Happy Days - Mencken''s Autobiography: 1880-1892

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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 Day"s, "Prejudices," "Treatise on the Gods," "On Politics," "Thirty-Five Years of Newspaper Work," "Minority Report," and "A Second Mencken Chrestomathy." Most of these autobiographical writings first appeared in the "New Yorker." Here Mencken recalls memories of a safe and happy boyhood in the Baltimore of the 1880s.

Product details

• Authors: H. L. Mencken
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.11.2006
• EAN: 9780801885310
• ISBN: 978-0-8018-8531-0
• No. of pages: 336
• Series: Maryland Paperback Bookshelf; Maryland Paperback Bookshelf
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Journalism; Literaturtheorie, Anthologien (nicht Lyrik), BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Editors, Journalists, Publishers, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, Literature - Classics / Criticism