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Author : George H. Douglas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780712909020
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (9 download)
Download or read book H.L. Mencken, Critic of American Life written by George H. Douglas and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Henry Louis Mencken
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book H.L. Mencken on American Literature written by Henry Louis Mencken and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Having edited several other volumes of American writer Mencken's (1880-1956) writings, Joshi here reprints his book reviews from their original appearance in the Smart Set, American Mercury, and other magazines and newspapers between 1908 and the 1930s. He includes four essays reflecting on reviewing books. The reviews are in sections on establishing the canon, some worthy second-raters, trade goods, and thoughts on literary criticism. Only names and titles are indexed. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
Author : Henry Louis Mencken
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Mencken's America written by Henry Louis Mencken and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Famous as a political, social and cultural gadfly, journalist and essayist H.L. Mencken was unafraid to speak his mind on controversial topics and to express his views in a deliberately provocative manner. This is a collection of work previously only published in newspapers and magazines.
Author : Terry Teachout
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 006050529X
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (65 download)
Download or read book The Skeptic written by Terry Teachout and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2003-11-04 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When H. L. Mencken talked, everyone listened -- like it or not. In the Roaring Twenties, he was the one critic who mattered, the champion of a generation of plain-speaking writers who redefined the American novel, and the ax-swinging scourge of the know-nothing, go-getting middle-class philistines whom he dubbed the "booboisie." Some loved him, others loathed him, but everybody read him. Now Terry Teachout takes on the man Edmund Wilson called "our greatest practicing literary journalist," brilliantly capturing all of Mencken's energy and erudition, passion and paradoxes, in a masterful biography of this iconoclastic figure and the world he shaped.
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 : Marion Elizabeth Rodgers
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019533129X
Total Pages : 673 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)
Download or read book Mencken written by Marion Elizabeth Rodgers and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-08-10 with total page 673 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A towering figure on the American cultural landscape, H.L. Mencken stands out as one of our most influential stylists and fearless iconoclasts--the twentieth century's greatest newspaper journalist, a famous wit, and a constant figure of controversy. Marion Elizabeth Rodgers has written the definitive biography of Mencken, the finest book ever published about this giant of American letters. Rodgers illuminates both the public and the private man, covering the many love affairs, his happy marriage at the age of 50 to Sara Haardt, and his complicated but stimulating friendship with the famed theater critic George Jean Nathan. Rodgers vividly recreates Mencken's era: the glittering tapestry of turn-of-the-century America, the roaring twenties, depressed thirties, and the home front during World War II. But the heart of the book is Mencken. When few dared to shatter complacencies, Mencken fought for civil liberties and free speech, playing a prominent role in the Scope's Monkey Trial, battling against press censorship, and exposing pious frauds and empty uplift. The champion of our tongue in The American Language, Mencken also played a pivotal role in defining American letters through The Smart Set and The American Mercury, magazines that introduced such writers as James Joyce, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Langston Hughes. Drawing on research in more than sixty archives including private collections in the United States and in Germany, previously unseen, on exclusive interviews with Mencken's friends, and on his love letters and FBI files, here is the full portrait of one of America's most colorful and influential men. This biography, the best ever on the sage of Baltimore, is exhaustive but never exhausting, and offers readers more than moderate intelligence and an awfully good time. --Martin Nolan, Boston Globe
Author : Henry Louis Mencken
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Prejudices written by Henry Louis Mencken and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Walter Lippmann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781258025182
Total Pages : 12 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (251 download)
Download or read book H.L. Mencken: literary critic written by Walter Lippmann and published by . This book was released on 2011-05 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Article From The Saturday Review Of Literature, December 11, 1926.
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 : Hart, D. G.
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0802873448
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (28 download)
Download or read book Damning Words written by Hart, D. G. and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2016 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts a famously outspoken agnostic's surprising relationship with Christianity H. L. Mencken (1880-1956) was a reporter, literary critic, editor, author--and a famous American agnostic. From his role in the Scopes Trial to his advocacy of science and reason in public life, Mencken is generally regarded as one of the fiercest critics of Christianity in his day. In this biography D. G. Hart presents a provocative, iconoclastic perspective on Mencken's life. Even as Mencken vividly debunked American religious ideals, says Hart, it was Christianity that largely framed his ideas, career, and fame. Mencken's relationship to the Christian faith was at once antagonistic and symbiotic. Using plenty of Mencken's own words, Damning Words superbly portrays an influential figure in twentieth-century America and, at the same time, casts telling new light on his era.
Author : Henry Louis Mencken
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838638699
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (386 download)
Download or read book From Baltimore to Bohemia written by Henry Louis Mencken and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: L. Mencken and George Sterling - by turns amusing, outrageous, and illuminating - casts a vivid light into the literary, social, and cultural milieu of the Jazz Age, as seen through the eyes of two of its most distinctive figures."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Jacques Barzun
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781258045777
Total Pages : 8 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (457 download)
Download or read book Mencken's America Speaking written by Jacques Barzun and published by . This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hl Mencken
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781016043557
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (435 download)
Download or read book Prejudices written by Hl Mencken and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307808866
Total Pages : 683 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Diary of H. L. Mencken written by H.L. Mencken and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 683 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: H. L. Mencken's diary was, at his own request, kept sealed in the vaults of Baltimore's Enoch Pratt Library for a quarter of a century after his death. The diary covers the years 1930 -- 1948, and provides a vivid, unvarnished, sometimes shocking picture of Mencken himself, his world, and his friends and antagonists, from Theodore Dreiser, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sinclair Lewis, and William Faulkner to Franklin D. Roosevelt, for whom Mencken nourished a hatred that resulted in spectacular and celebrated feats of invective. From the more than 2,000 pages of typescript that have now come to light, the Mencken scholar Charles A. Fecher has made a generous selection of entries carefully chosen to preserve the whole range, color, and impact of the diary. Here, full scale, is Mencken the unique observer and disturber of American society. And here too is Mencken the human being of wildly contradictory impulses: the skeptic who was prey to small superstitions, the dare-all warrior who was a hopeless hypochondriac, the loving husband and generous friend who was, alas, a bigot. Mencken emerges from these pages unretouched -- in all the often outrageous gadfly vitality that made him, at his brilliant best, so important to the intellectual fabric of American life
Author : H. L. Mencken
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807146579
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Mencken on Mencken written by H. L. Mencken and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2010-03-01 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Mencken weighs 172 pounds, is 5 feet 10 inches in height and not beautiful. His chief amusement, after reading, is piano-playing, this he does very crudely. He takes no exercise except walking and is a moderate eater and drinker. He sometimes drinks as little as one bottle of beer a week, though this doesn't happen very often." So wrote H. L. Mencken about himself, in a brief sketch of his life penned in 1905. Perhaps America's foremost literary stylist and most mordant wit, Mencken's most engaging writing told about his own life and experiences. In Mencken on Mencken, veteran Mencken editor and scholar S. T. Joshi has assembled a hefty collection of the best of Mencken's autobiographical pieces that have not appeared previously in book form. These forty-four selections cover a wide variety of topics ranging from incidents from Mencken's everyday life to reflections on friends and colleagues to his careers as author, journalist, and editor, to his travels abroad. As a journalist in Baltimore, Mencken encountered many unusual characters: a professional mourner hired by a beer distiller, a wagon driver who slept through the great Baltimore fire of 1904, a confirmed bachelor who left town to avoid the clutches of a predatory widow. He provides accounts of literary figures he knew, such as Theodore Dreiser, and ruminations on his work at the Baltimore Sun and as editor for the magazines Smart Set and the American Mercury. In an essay titled "What I Believe," he eschews humor and writes straightforwardly of his longtime scorn for the idea of religion, and in his journalist mode he reflects on a half-century of attending political conventions, drawing on his vast inside knowledge to savage the corruption and incompetence of the political class. A superb travel writer, Mencken gives us a rollicking account of beer-drinking in Munich, astute observations of political unrest in Cuba, and carefully drawn scenes from a long tour he and his wife made of the Mediterranean in 1934. Joshi has thoroughly annotated the pieces and also compiled an extensive glossary of names and terms that Mencken mentions. Mencken on Mencken offers a fully rounded self-portrait of one of America's most colorful personalities and most extraordinary men of letters.
Author : Henry L. Mencken
Publisher : Alfred A. Knopf
ISBN 13 : 9780394435947
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (359 download)
Download or read book The American Scene written by Henry L. Mencken and published by Alfred A. Knopf. This book was released on 1977 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : H. L. Mencken
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781503354807
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (548 download)
Download or read book H. L. Mencken, Collection written by H. L. Mencken and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-11-23 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry Louis "H. L." Mencken (1880 - 1956) was an American journalist, essayist, magazine editor, satirist, critic of American life and culture, and scholar of American English. Known as the "Sage of Baltimore," he is regarded as one of the most influential American writers and prose stylists of the first half of the twentieth century. Many of his books remain in print. Mencken is known for writing The American Language, a multi-volume study of how the English language is spoken in the United States, and for his satirical reporting on the Scopes trial, which he dubbed the "Monkey Trial." He commented widely on the social scene, literature, music, prominent politicians and contemporary movements. In this book: The Antichrist (translator) In Defense of Women The American Language A Book of Prefaces A Book of Burlesques Damn!, A Book of Calumny
