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Bluebeard's Goat and Other Stories.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mencken, H. L.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Short stories.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (379 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Havertown : Dufour Editions, Incorporated, 2012.
- Summary:
- 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
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Introduction by S. T. Joshi
- The Cook's Victory
- Like a Thief in the Night
- A Double Rebellion
- The Crime of McSwane
- The Bend in the Tube
- The Last Cavalry Charge
- The Barbarous Bradley
- Epithalamium
- The Visionary
- From the Memoirs of the Devil
- A Statesman
- The Memory of Edna
- Bluebeard's Goat
- The Charmed Circle
- The Window of Horrors
- Wall-Paper
- The Victim
- The Homeric Sex
- The Man of God
- The Hypocrite
- Wives
- Here's to the Dead!
- Meditation
- Some Jeux d'Esprit
- The Scholar
- The Prayer of a Little Frog
- The Greatest Gift
- The Incomparable Physician
- The Rescuers
- The Bleeding Heart
- The Omission
- She Did Not Believe Me
- Bibliography.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9780802360526
- 0802360521
- 9780802360236
- 0802360238
- OCLC:
- 1143626100
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