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The Whimsical Letters of H.L. Mencken and Philip Goodman
出版Maryland Historical Society, 1996
主題Biography & Autobiography / Editors, Journalists, PublishersHistory / GeneralLiterary Collections / LettersLiterary Criticism / GeneralLiterary Criticism / American / General
ISBN09384205779780938420576
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=MjDJPgAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋In 1918, while Henry Louis Mencken was editing The Smart Set in New York and working on The American Language in his native Baltimore, his best friend, Philip Goodman, a New York advertising man, bon vivant, and fledgling publisher, wrote a letter "reminiscing" about their old German-American neighborhood in the 1880s and 1890s. He invented characters and events and wrote with irony and affection for those better times. Mencken rose instantly to the challenge and wrote a letter in similar vein. For three years the correspondents tried to out-do each other in telling tall stories. Sanders has reconstructed and annotated this correspondence.