Heathen Days: Mencken's Autobiography: 1890-1936 (Maryland Paperback Bookshelf) - Softcover

Mencken, H. L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0801853397 ISBN 13: 9780801853395

Verlag: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996

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"This is an anecdotal book, full of humor, full of the old ripsnorting rhetoric, full of comic exaggerations, and above all else full of gusto." -- Saturday Review

"In Heathen Days we find all of Mencken's strengths present and kicking." -- Brendan O'Donnell, Ex Libris

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In the third volume of his autobiography, H. L. Mencken looks back on his life and declares it "very busy and excessively pleasant." He imparts the impressive education he received from Hoggie Unglebower, the best dog trainer in Christendom, and the survival techniques he employed at Baltimore Polytechnic, where he learned to protect his fingers from power tools and his character from the influence of algebra.

Mencken also describes the club boxing matches he attended, watching as the combatants in this gentleman's sport genteelly broke both bones and the law. And he recounts his voyage across the Atlantic that he, unlike Columbus, paid for himself. In Naples, he admired the garbage that seemed to have accumulated since Roman times. In Tunis, he searched for the ruins of Carthage. In the Holy Land, he looked for the ruins of Gomorrah, the Hollywood of antiquity, in hopes of finding evidence that the city's unparalleled reputation for wickedness was simply exaggerated.

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• Verlag: The Johns Hopkins University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0801853397
• ISBN 13: 9780801853395
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 320