Mencken and Sara: A Life in Letters : The Private Correspondence of H.L. Mencken and Sara Haardt
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Book Overview
A major contribution to the history of letters, the correspondence between H.L. Mencken and his wife, writer Sara Haardt, is also a poignant, resonant, very American love story which offers important... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0070415056
ISBN13:9780070415058
Release Date:January 1987
Publisher:McGraw-Hill
Length:551 Pages
Weight:2.15 lbs.
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The only love story I ever read cover-to-cover.
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 18 years ago
Sarah Haardt was a true Southern Bell and, unfortunately, this book gives little insight into what a remarkable women she was in her own right. I am a Mencken fan and, if he was a bigot, then I am also a bigot. I think he had too little patience for Southern culture and those less intelligent than himself, which would have been a large percentage of the population. But I think writing was his salvation being an intellectual castaway amid a virtual sea of stupidity in his time and place. If you like to watch the slow development of a firm foundation for marriage and a relatively happy ending, and I think increasingly lonely, aging curmudgeon gets younger wife and perfect intellectual companion in one cute package certainly qualifies, this might be a good choice.
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