Mencken on Mencken : A New Collection of Autobiographical Writings /
Perhaps America's foremost literary stylist and most mordant wit, Mencken's most engaging writing told about his own life and experiences. In Mencken on Mencken, veteran Mencken editor and scholar S. T. Joshi has assembled a hefty collection of the best of Mencken's autobiographical p...
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Baton Rouge :
Louisiana State University Press,
2010.
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Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Summary: | Perhaps America's foremost literary stylist and most mordant wit, Mencken's most engaging writing told about his own life and experiences. In Mencken on Mencken, veteran Mencken editor and scholar S. T. Joshi has assembled a hefty collection of the best of Mencken's autobiographical pieces that have not appeared previously in book form. These forty-four selections cover a wide variety of topics ranging from incidents from Mencken's everyday life to reflections on friends and colleagues to his careers as author, journalist, and editor, to his travels abroad. Joshi has thoroughly annotated the p. |
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Item Description: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (272 pages). |
ISBN: | 9780807137314 |