: Mencken H. L. Mencken
: Joshi S.T. Joshi
: Bluebeard's Goat and Other Stories
: Dufour Editions
: 9780802360526
: 1
: CHF 16.10
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: Essays, Feuilleton, Literaturkritik, Interviews
: English
: 384
: DRM
: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet
: PDF
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