Happy Days

With a style that combined biting sarcasm with the "language of the free lunch counter," Henry Louis Mencken shook politics and politicians for nearly half a century. Now, fifty years after Mencken's death, the Johns Hopkins University Press announces The Buncombe Collection, newly packaged editions of nine Mencken classics: Happy Days, Heathen Days, Newspaper Days, Prejudices, Treatise on the Gods, On Politics, Thirty-Five Years of Newspaper Work, Minority Report, and A Second Mencken Chrestomathy.Most of these autobiographical writings first appeared in the New Yorker. Here Mencken recalls memories of a safe and happy boyhood in the Baltimore of the 1880s.

Henry Louis Mencken was born in Baltimore in 1880 and remained a lifelong resident. Opinionated and controversial, he wrote columns for the Baltimore Evening Sun that earned him a national reputation. He died in 1956.

Preface	ix
I. Introduction to the Universe	3	(16)
II. The Caves of Learning	19	(20)
III. Recollections of Academic Orgies	39	(15)
IV. The Baltimore of the Eighties	54	(20)
V. Rural Delights	74	(17)
VI. The Head of the House	91	(15)
VII. Memorials of Gormandizing	106	(13)
VIII. The Training of a Gangster	119	(24)
IX. Cops and Their Ways	143	(14)
X. Larval Stage of a Bookworm	157	(19)
XI. First Steps in Divinity	176	(13)
XII. The Ruin of an Artist	189	(13)
XIII. In the Footsteps of Gutenberg	202	(16)
XIV. From the Records of an Athlete	218	(14)
XV. The Capital of the Republic	232	(15)
XVI. Recreations of a Reactionary	247	(16)
XVII. Brief Gust of Glory	263	(14)
XVIII. The Career of a Philosopher	277	(14)
XIX. Innocence in a Wicked World	291	(10)
XX. Strange Scenes and Far Places	301

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