- Title Pages
- Illustration
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Illustration
- Prologue BOSTON, 1926
- Part One 1880–1914
- 1 THE CITIZEN OF BALTIMORE
- 2 THE ETERNAL BOY
- 3 AUGUST MENCKEN & BRO.
- 4 BALTIMORE AND BEYOND
- 5 TERSE AND TERRIBLE TEXTS
- 6 PLAYS AND PLAYERS
- 7 THE GREAT BALTIMORE FIRE
- 8 A MAN OF ABILITY
- 9 A YOUNG MAN IN A HURRY
- 10 BROADENING HORIZONS
- 11 THE BAD BOY OF BALTIMORE
- 12 OUTSIDE, LOOKING IN
- Part Two 1914–1919
- Part Three 1920–1930
- Part Four 1930–1935
- Part Five 1936–1940
- Part Six 1941–1948
- <i>Part Seven</i> 1949–1956
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX
TERSE AND TERRIBLE TEXTS
TERSE AND TERRIBLE TEXTS
- Chapter:
- (p.62) 5 TERSE AND TERRIBLE TEXTS
- Source:
- Mencken
- Author(s):
Marion Elizabeth Rodgers
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
While working twelve hours a day, seven days a week, young reporter Mencken finds time to write short stories and poetry. His influences include Rudyard Kipling and Theodore Dresier. All this activity takes its toll, and Mencken travels to the Caribbean to recuperate. His previous notions of race were shattered upon seeing that unlike the African-Americans in Baltimore, those in Jamaica were given high positions in government and administration. He begins writing a humorous column on local politics, but yearns for more excitement in his life.
Keywords: Rudyard Kipling, Jamaica, Baltimore and the Rest of the World, fabricated texts, Ellery Sedgewick
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- Title Pages
- Illustration
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Illustration
- Prologue BOSTON, 1926
- Part One 1880–1914
- 1 THE CITIZEN OF BALTIMORE
- 2 THE ETERNAL BOY
- 3 AUGUST MENCKEN & BRO.
- 4 BALTIMORE AND BEYOND
- 5 TERSE AND TERRIBLE TEXTS
- 6 PLAYS AND PLAYERS
- 7 THE GREAT BALTIMORE FIRE
- 8 A MAN OF ABILITY
- 9 A YOUNG MAN IN A HURRY
- 10 BROADENING HORIZONS
- 11 THE BAD BOY OF BALTIMORE
- 12 OUTSIDE, LOOKING IN
- Part Two 1914–1919
- Part Three 1920–1930
- Part Four 1930–1935
- Part Five 1936–1940
- Part Six 1941–1948
- <i>Part Seven</i> 1949–1956
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX
