Bluebeard's Goat and Other Stories - Couverture souple

Mencken, H L

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 080231354X ISBN 13 : 9780802313546

Editeur : Dufour Editions,U.S., 2012

Synopsis

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

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Dufour Editions,U.S.
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 080231354X
• ISBN 13: 9780802313546
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 384
• Éditeur: Joshi S T
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible