Flint Public Library (Middleton)

The days trilogy, H.L. Mencken ; Marion Elizabeth Rodgers, editor

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

illustrations

index present

non fiction

The days trilogy

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H.L. Mencken ; Marion Elizabeth Rodgers, editor

The Library of America, 257

Major literary event: Mencken's dazzling autobiography, with 200 pages of his own never-before-published commentary and photos. In 1936, at the age of fifty-five, H. L. Mencken published a reminiscence about his boyhood in The New Yorker, beginning a long and magnificent adventure in autobiography by America's greatest journalist. Mencken went on to gather his childhood recollections in Happy Days (1940), a richly detailed, poignant account of growing up in Baltimore. A critical and popular success, the book surprised many with its glimpses of a less curmudgeonly Mencken, and there soon followed the absorbing sequels Newspaper Days (1941), charting his rise at the Baltimore Herald from cub reporter to editor, and Heathen Days (1943), recounting his varied excursions as journalist and public figure, including his coverage of the Scopes trial in 1925. But unknown to the legions of Days books' admirers, Mencken continued to add to them after publication, annotating and expanding each volume in typescripts sealed to the public for twenty-five years after his death. Until now, most of this material often more frank and unvarnished than the original Days books has never been published. Containing nearly 200 pages of previously unseen writing, and illustrated with photographs from Mencken's archives, many taken by Mencken himself, this expanded and definitive edition of the Days trilogy is a cause for celebration. -- Amazon.com

Happy days, 1880-1892. Introduction to the universe ; The caves of learning ; Recollections of academic orgies ; The Baltimore of the eighties ; Rural delights ; The head of the house ; Memorials of gormandizing ; The training of a gangster ; Cops and their ways ; Larval stage of a bookworm ; First steps in divinity ; The ruin of an artist ; In the footsteps of Gutenberg ; From the records of an athlete ; The capital of the republic ; Recreations of a reactionary ; Brief gust of glory ; The career of a philosopher ; Innocence in a wicked world ; Strange scenes and far places -- Newspaper days, 1899-1906. Allegro con brio ; Drill for a rookie ; Sergeant's stripes ; Approach to lovely letters ; Fruits of diligence ; The gospel of service ; Scent of the theatre ; Command ; Three managing editors ; Slaves of beauty ; The days of the giants ; The judicial arm ; Recollections of notable cops ; A genial restauranteur ; A girl from Red Lion, PA ; Scions of the bogus nobility ; Aliens, but not yet enemies ; The synthesis of news ; Fire alarm ; Sold down the river -- Heathen days, 1890-1936. Downfall of a revolutionary [1890] ; Memoirs of the stable [1891] ; Adventures of a Y.M.C.A. lad [1894] ; The educational process [1896] ; Finale to the Rogue's March [1900] ; Notes on palaeozoic publicists [1902] ; The tone art [1903] ; A master of gladiators [1907] ; A dip into statecraft [1912] ; Court of honor [1913] ; A Roman holiday [1914] ; Winter voyage [1916] ; Gore in the Caribbees [1917] ; Romantic intermezzo [1920] ; Old home day [1922] ; The noble experiment [1924] ; Inquisition [1925] ; Vanishing act [1934] ; Pilgrimage [1934] ; Beaters of breasts [1936] -- Days revisited : Mencken's unpublished commentary. Notes on Happy days, 1880-1892 ; Notes on Newspaper days ; Notes on Heathen days

H.L. Mencken, the days trilogy