Mencken and Sara: A Life in Letters

by Marion Elizabeth Rodgers

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: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385419805
• ISBN13: 9780385419802
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Anchor Books
• Length: 551 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

The only love story I ever read cover-to-cover.

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.