| Bluebeard's Goat and Other Stories Contributor(s): Mencken, H. L. (Author), Joshi, S. T. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 080231354X ISBN-13: 9780802313546 Publisher: Dufour Editions OUR PRICE: $15.26 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) |
| Dewey: 813.52 |
| LCCN: 2012030114 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.58" W x 8.38" (1.17 lbs) 378 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 |