From Baltimore to Bohemia The Letters of H. L. Mencken and George Sterling
Innbundet /
2001
/ Engelsk
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ISBN
9781611471991
Published
2001-04-01
Publisher
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Weight
601 gr
Height
243 mm
Width
168 mm
Thickness
21 mm
Age
P, 06
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Number of pages
284
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Some of Mencken’s most interesting letters were written to George Sterling, a pupil of Ambrose Bierce. The correspondence—which survives nearly intact on both sides—covers a wealth of subjects, including Mencken’s editorship of the Smart Set (1914-23) and American Mercury (1924-26), mutual colleagues (Bierce, Theodore Dreiser, Jack London, Sinclair Lewis), and most entertainingly, each author’s flagrant flouting of Prohibition as well as Sterling’s carnal adventures with a variety of women in California. These letters shed a vivid light on the literary, political, social, and cultural temper of the Jazz Age.
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Product details
ISBN
9781611471991
Published
2001-04-01
Publisher
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Weight
601 gr
Height
243 mm
Width
168 mm
Thickness
21 mm
Age
P, 06
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Number of pages
284
Edited by