Heathen Days: Mencken's Autobiography: 1890-1936
of H.L. Mencken
Series: H. L. Mencken's Autobiography #3
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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 Menckenâs 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.
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- Format Paperback
- Pages 320 pages
- Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press
- Publication Date August 28th 2006
- First Publication 1941
- Language English
- ISBN 9780801885327
- Edition Not informed
- Category Other
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