Publisher: Covici-McGee Publication date: 1922 Subjects: Fantasy fiction, American Fiction / Fantasy / General Fiction / Fantasy / Epic Fiction / Romance / Gothic Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there.

Fantazius Mallare: A mysterious oath

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Hecht, Ben

Thrillers & Suspense

Harcourt, Brace. Jovanovich

The Kingdom of Evil: A Continuation of the Journal of Fantazius MallarePaperback: 211 pagesPublisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich; 1St Edition edition (1978)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 015647123X

The Kingdom of Evil: A Continuation of the Journal of Fantazius Mallare

In 1921, Ben Hecht wrote a column for the Chicago Daily News that his editor called “journalism extraordinary; journalism that invaded the realm of literature.” Hecht’s collection of sixty-four of these pieces, illustrated with striking pen drawings by Herman Rosse, is a timeless caricature of urban American life in the jazz age, updated with a new Introduction for the twenty-first century. From the glittering opulence of Michigan Avenue to the darkest ruminations of an escaped convict, from captains of industry to immigrant day laborers, Hecht captures 1920s Chicago in all its furor, intensity, and absurdity.
“The hardboiled audacity and wit that became Hecht’s signature as Hollywood’s most celebrated screen-writer are conspicuous in these vignettes. Most of them are comic and sardonic, some strike muted tragic or somber atmospheric notes. . . . The best are timeless character sketches that have taken on an added interest as shards of social history.”—L. S. Klepp, Voice Literary Supplement

A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago

History

Savage, Bill

Americas

University of Chicago Press

1001 Afternoons in Chicago

Literature & Fiction

Essays & Correspondence

A Child of the Century

Ben Hecht’s critically acclaimed autobiographical memoir, first published in 1954, offers incomparably pungent evocations of Chicago in the 1910s and 1920s, Hollywood in the 1930s, and New York during the Second World War and after. “His manners are not always nice, but then nice manners do not always make interesting autobiographies, and this autobiography has the merit of being intensely interesting.”—Saul Bellow, New York Times Named to Time’s list of All-Time 100 Nonfiction Books, which deems it “the un-put-downable testament of the era’s great multimedia entertainer.”

Humor & Entertainment

Yale University Press

Fantazius Mallare: A Mysterious Oath (Supernatural & Occult Fiction)

Ayer Co. Pub

Genre Fiction

The kingdom of evil: A continuation of the Journal of Fantazius Mallare (Supernatural & occult fiction)

Arno Press

The author recounts his childhood, education, and career as journalist, playwright, and screenwriter, describes famous political and literary acquaintances, and examines U.S. efforts to aid Jews in Nazi Germany and, after the war, in Israel

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Signet

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