A Book of Burlesques
By H. L. Mencken
- Release Date: 2015-07-04
- Genre: Short Stories
This is a collection of works by one of the most creative artists in the world. The topics range and are worth the read. The flow is different from modern tales but worth the extra effort.
An excerpt “The present edition includes some epigrams from A Little Book in C Major, now out of print. To make room for them several of the smaller sketches in the first edition have been omitted. Nearly the whole contents of the book appeared originally in The Smart Set. The references to a Europe not yet devastated by war and an America not yet polluted by Prohibition show that some of the pieces first saw print in far better days than these. The back parlor of any average American home. The blinds are drawn and a single gas-jet burns feebly. A dim suggestion of festivity: strange chairs, the table pushed back, a decanter and glasses. A heavy, suffocating, discordant scent of flowers roses, carnations, lilies, gardenias. A general stuffiness and mugginess, as if it were raining outside, which it ist.”
