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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
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- Publication Date:04/12/2012
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- Pages:384 pages
- Publisher:Dufour Editions
- Publication Date:04/12/2012
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- ISBN:9780802360526
