Happy Days: Mencken's Autobiography: 1880-1892 (Maryland Paperback Bookshelf) (Volume 1) - Softcover

Mencken, H. L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0801853389 ISBN 13: 9780801853388

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996

Synopsis

Though best known for his caustic newspaper columns, H. L. Mencken's most enduring contribution to American literature may be his autobiographical writings, most of which first appeared in the New Yorker. In Happy Days, Mencken recalls memories of a safe and happy boyhood in the Baltimore of the 1880s and celebrates a way of life that he saw swiftly changing―from a time of straw hats and buggy rides to locomotives and bread lines.

About this title

Book Description:

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 Mencken’s 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.

About the Author:

Born in Baltimore in 1880, H. L. Mencken remained a lifelong resident and became one of the city's most famous sons. Ever home to controversy, his column for the Baltimore Sun earned him a national reputation. He died in his rowhouse on Union Square in 1956.

About this edition

• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0801853389
• ISBN 13: 9780801853388
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 330