Heathen Days: Mencken's Autobiography
Subtitle: 1890-1936 (Buncombe Collection)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press; Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: August 28, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780801885327
Subjects: Biography: general; Novels, other prose & writers: from c 1900 -; 20th century; c 1800 to c 1900; United States - 20th Century; Editors, Journalists, Publishers; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography; USA; Semiotics & Theory; Baltimore; Biography & Autobiography / Editors, Journalists, Publishers; History / United States / General; History : United States - 20th Century; Literary Criticism : Semiotics & Theory; Essays
First sentence: OF all the eminent characters who flourished in the West Baltimore of my infancy, the one most venerated by the boys of my generation was Hoggie Unglebower, an uncouth youth whose empire and influence, radiating out from an humble stable in the alley which ran behind our house in Hollins street, covered altogether an area of at least half a square mile.