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Author : Henry Louis Mencken
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:436071727
Author : H.L. Mencken
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 651 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-20
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780307831118
Before there was any such thing as political correctness, H. L. Mencken was flouting it. He was also cheerfully deriding the precursors of family values and lambasting the guardians of public virtue. This historic new collection is further evidence that Mencken was our most astute, stylish, and biliously funny commentator on the eternal American quackeries. A Second Mencken Chrestomathy (a word meaning “a collection of choice passages from an author or authors”) was compiled by the sage of Baltimore before he suffered the stroke that ended his career and has only now been retrieved from his private papers by the columnist and Mencken biographer Terry Teachout. Its 238 selections—many of which have never before been published in book form—encompass subjects from Americana (“The Commonwealth of Morons”) to men and women (“Sex on the Stage”) and from criminology (“More and Better Psychopaths”) to the pursuit of happiness (“Alcohol”). The result is Mencken at his most engaging, maddening, heretical, and hilarious.
Author : H.L. Mencken
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307830876
Though best known for his caustic newspaper columns, H. L. Mencken's most enduring contribution to American literature may be his autobiographical writings, most of which first appeared in the New Yorker. In Happy Days, Mencken recalls memories of a safe and happy boyhood in the Baltimore of the 1880s and celebrates a way of life that he saw swiftly changing—from a time of straw hats and buggy rides to locomotives and bread lines.
Author : H. L. Mencken
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2006-10-02
Category : History
ISBN : 0801885361
Controversial even before it was published in 1930, Treatise on the Gods collects Mencken's scathing commentary on religion.
Author : H.L. Mencken
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-02
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780307830906
In the fall of 1948 H. L. Mencken, then at the top of his unmatchable form (he had spoken at a meeting of the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia only a little while before), suffered a stroke. He soon recovered his physical vigor, but writing was for him a thing of the past. Some months before his death, in going through some papers that he was putting in order for deposit in his beloved Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore, his long-time secretary discovered these Notebooks. Mencken meant to publish them, as he makes clear in the preface, which also describes them better than I can. Suffice it to say that here is one more generous sampling of the old Mencken battling fearlessly for the freedom and dignity of the individual and for the general decencies of life and attacking all that seems fundamentally hostile to man: government, organized religion, professional philosophers, and pedagogues above all. It shows his restless and inquiring mind ranging over many of the problems that beset all of us who ever take time out to think, all in his unmatchable style, which, however much it crackles, has the supreme virtue—which Henry always found in his own great model, Thomas Henry Huxley—that of never leaving you in doubt of its meaning. Read the preface and note that this book is precisely what its title suggests; it consists of hundreds of notes—some only a few lines in length, some running to several pages, all reflecting a rigorous and exhilarating mind and personality. It may be a long time before another like him crosses our path.
Author : Henry L. Mencken
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1072094005
Author : H. L. Mencken
Publisher : Dissident Books
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-17
Category : Humor
ISBN : 0977378837
The perfect book for the 2012 elections. . . and beyond![Democracy] [i]is based on propositions that are palpably not true-and what is not true, as everyone knows, is always immensely more fascinating and satisfying to the vast majority of men than what is true...[/i]H.L. Mencken wrote [i]Notes on Democracy[/i] over 80 years ago. His time, the paranoid and intolerant years of World War I, Prohibition, and the Scopes trial, is strikingly like our own. [i]Notes[/i] isn't just a blast from the past; it's a perceptive report on today.In Notes, Mencken conducts a bold, libertarian attack on intrusive government, special interest groups, and mob rule that's as relevant today as it was in the 1920s.Notes has something that will appeal to -- and offend -- everyone. Liberals will love Mencken's denunciation of jingoism; conservatives and libertarians will root for his attacks on meddling laws, hand-outs, and equality.The new edition includes an introduction and annotations by Marion Elizabeth Rodgers, author of Mencken: The American Iconoclast, and an afterword by two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Anthony Lewis.
Author : H.L. Mencken
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-07
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780307808875
Edited and annotated by H.L.M., this is a selection from his out-of-print writings. They come mostly from books—the six installments of the Prejudices series, A Book of Burlesques, In Defense of Women, Notes on Democracy, Making a President, A Book of Calumny, Treatise on Right and Wrong—but there are also magazine and newspaper pieces that never got between covers (from the American Mercury, the Smart Set, and the Baltimore Evening Sun) and some notes that were never previously published at all. Readers will find edification and amusement in his estimates of a variety of Americans—Woodrow Wilson, Aimee Semple McPherson, Roosevelt I and Roosevelt II, James Gibbons Huneker, Rudolph Valentino, Calvin Coolidge, Ring Lardner, Theodore Dreiser, and Walt Whitman. Those musically inclined will enjoy his pieces on Beethoven, Schubert, and Wagner, and there is material for a hundred controversies in his selections on Joseph Conrad, Thorstein Veblen, Nietzsche, and Madame Blavatsky.
Author : Henry Louis Mencken
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 627 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1949
Category : American essays
ISBN : OCLC:163041125
Author : Professor H L Mencken
Publisher : Cosimo Classics
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1933-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1646793609
"The normal American of the 'pure-blooded' majority goes to rest every night with an uneasy feeling that there is a burglar under the bed and he gets up every morning with a sickening fear that his underwear has been stolen." -H. L. Mencken, The Anglo-Saxon (1923) The Anglo-Saxon (1923), is an essay by H. L. Mencken in which he criticized Anglo-Saxonism, a belief system of late 19th century and early 20th century promoting the superiority of English-speaking nations. Mencken, although he considered himself of true Anglo-Saxon ancestry, thought the American Anglo-Saxon to be inferior and weak.
Author : H.L. Mencken
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 657 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1982-04-12
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780394752099
Edited and annotated by H.L.M., this is a selection from his out-of-print writings. They come mostly from books—the six installments of the Prejudices series, A Book of Burlesques, In Defense of Women, Notes on Democracy, Making a President, A Book of Calumny, Treatise on Right and Wrong—but there are also magazine and newspaper pieces that never got between covers (from the American Mercury, the Smart Set, and the Baltimore Evening Sun) and some notes that were never previously published at all. Readers will find edification and amusement in his estimates of a variety of Americans—Woodrow Wilson, Aimee Semple McPherson, Roosevelt I and Roosevelt II, James Gibbons Huneker, Rudolph Valentino, Calvin Coolidge, Ring Lardner, Theodore Dreiser, and Walt Whitman. Those musically inclined will enjoy his pieces on Beethoven, Schubert, and Wagner, and there is material for a hundred controversies in his selections on Joseph Conrad, Thorstein Veblen, Nietzsche, and Madame Blavatsky.
Author : Henry Louis Mencken
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:436071727
Author : Hl Mencken
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-27
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1016043554
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : H. L. Mencken
Publisher : Regnery Publishing
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2000-12-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0895262312
Welcome the long overdue re-release of Mencken's continual war against conventional thinking.
Author : Henry Louis Mencken
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1020185317
A biting and erudite critique of the human tendency to slander and defame others, with examples drawn from politics, literature, and academic circles. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
