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Author : Henry Louis Mencken
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 627 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (11 download)
Download or read book A Mencken Chrestomathy written by Henry Louis Mencken and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 627 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : H.L. Mencken
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307831116
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Second Mencken Chrestomathy written by H.L. Mencken and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2013-03-20 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Henry Louis Mencken
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Book of Calumny written by Henry Louis Mencken and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : H.L. Mencken
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0307830926
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Treatise on the Gods written by H.L. Mencken and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2013-03-20 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I am quite convinced that all religions, at bottom, are pretty much alike. On the surface they may seem to differ greatly, but what appears on the surface is not always religion. Go beneath it, and one finds invariably the same sense of helplessness before the cosmic mysteries, and the same pathetic attempt to resolve it by appealing to higher powers."--from Treatise on the Gods H. L. Mencken is perhaps best known for his scathing political satire. But politicians, as far as Mencken was concerned, had no monopoly on self-righteous chest-thumping, deceit, and thievery. He also found religion to be an adversary worthy of his attention and, in Treatise on the Gods, he offers some of his best shots, a choreographed cannonade. Mencken examines religion everywhere, from India to Peru, from the myths of Egypt to the traditional beliefs of America's Bible Belt. He compares Incas and Greeks, examines doctrines, dogmas, sacred texts, heresies, and ceremonies. He ranges far and wide, but returns at last to the subject that most provokes him: Christianity. He reviews the history of the Church and its founders. "It is Tertullian who is credited with the motto, Credo, quia absurdum est: I believe because it is incredible. Needless to say, he began life as a lawyer." Mencken is no less interested in the dissidents: "The Reformers were men of courage, but not many of them were intelligent." Against the old-time religion of fellow countrymen, Mencken posed as a figure of old-time skepticism, and he reaped the whirlwind. Controversial even before it was published in 1930, Treatise on the Gods remains what its author wished it to be: the plain, clear challenge of honest doubt.
Author : H.L. Mencken
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 030783087X
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Happy Days written by H.L. Mencken and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2013-03-20 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307808882
Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)
Download or read book My Life as Author and Editor written by H.L. Mencken and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-12-21 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: H. L. Mencken stipulated that this memoir remain sealed in a vault for thirty-five years after his death. For good reason: My Life as Author and Editor is so telling and uproariously opinionated that is might have provoked a storm of libel suits. As he recounts his career as a critic, essayist, and editor of the ground-breaking magazine Smart Set, Mencken brings us face to face with the literary aristocracy of his day, from the dour womanizer Theodore Dreiser to F. Scott Fitzgerald, drowning his gifts in alcohol. Here, too, are the hacks, poseurs, and bohemian crackpots who flocked around them. Most of all, here is Mencken himself, defying censors and Prohibition agents with equal aplomb in an age when literature was a contact sport.
Author : H.L. Mencken
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0394752090
Total Pages : 657 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (947 download)
Download or read book A Mencken Chrestomathy written by H.L. Mencken and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1982-04-12 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : H.L. Mencken
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 030783090X
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Minority Report written by H.L. Mencken and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2013-10-02 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : H.L. Mencken
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307808874
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Mencken Chrestomathy written by H.L. Mencken and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-03-07 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Professor H L Mencken
Publisher : Cosimo Classics
ISBN 13 : 9781646793600
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)
Download or read book The Anglo-Saxon written by Professor H L Mencken and published by Cosimo Classics. This book was released on 1933-07 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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 : Dissident Books
ISBN 13 : 9780977378838
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (788 download)
Download or read book Notes on Democracy written by H. L. Mencken and published by Dissident Books. This book was released on 2012-04-17 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Henry Louis Mencken
Publisher : Arralin Books LLC
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book In Defense of Women written by Henry Louis Mencken and published by Arralin Books LLC. This book was released on 1922 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : H. L. Mencken
Publisher : Regnery Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780895262318
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (623 download)
Download or read book H.L. Mencken's Smart Set Criticism written by H. L. Mencken and published by Regnery Publishing. This book was released on 2000-12-01 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome the long overdue re-release of Mencken's continual war against conventional thinking.
Author : Henry Louis Mencken
Publisher : Anchor Books
ISBN 13 : 9780385262088
Total Pages : 707 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)
Download or read book The Impossible H.L. Mencken written by Henry Louis Mencken and published by Anchor Books. This book was released on 1991 with total page 707 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of the journalist's columns, on such topics as presidents, congressmen, publishers, food, music, sports, the American language, and movie stars
Author : Henry L. Mencken
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (17 download)
Download or read book A Mencken chrestomathy written by Henry L. Mencken and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Henry Louis Mencken
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780801853807
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (538 download)
Download or read book Thirty-five Years of Newspaper Work written by Henry Louis Mencken and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work, written by H.L. Mencken in 1941-42 and only opened to the public in 1991, 35 years after his death, portrays the excitement of newspaper life in the heyday of print journalism. Mencken recalls his years as a reporter, including his coverage of presidential candidates from 1912 to 1940.
Author : Henry L. Mencken
Publisher : Alfred A. Knopf
ISBN 13 : 9780394435954
Total Pages : 626 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (359 download)
Download or read book A Mencken Chrestomathy written by Henry L. Mencken and published by Alfred A. Knopf. This book was released on 1949 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In my title I revive the word chrestomathy in its true sense of 'a collection of choice passages from an author or authors, ' and ignore the late edition of 'especially one complied to assist in the acquirement of a language.' In the latter significance the term is often used by linguists, and some of the chrestomathies issued by them in recent years.
