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H. L. Mencken
Few writers roiled the American cultural scene like Henry Louis Mencken. Pathbreaking journalist, trenchant social observer, and unbridled humorist, Mencken was the most provocative and influential cultural critic of the…
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Ronald Berman
A fresh and compelling study of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s intellectual friendship with Edmund Wilson, H. L. Mencken, and Gerald Murphy
Some of Mencken s most interesting letters were written to George Sterling, a pupil of Ambrose Bierce. The correspondence which survives nearly intact on both sides covers a wealth of…
Written in 1941-42, these highlights capture the excitement of newspaper life in the heyday of print journalism.
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H. L. Mencken, an American writer and cultural critic, put together a book of essays called Prejudices: First Series. The book is split into two parts. The first part talks…
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H L Mencken
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…
This collection of essays by the celebrated journalist and commentator H.L. Mencken takes on the conventional wisdom of his time on the subject of women and their role in society…
The most powerful and comprehensive overview of the philosophy of famous German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche ever published in the English language. Written with the aim of putting Nietzsche's sometimes complex…
The 1918 book In Defense of Women by H. L. Mencken discusses women and how the sexes interact. The book has received both progressive and reactionary reviews. Mencken did not…
Here Mencken recalls memories of a safe and happy boyhood in the Baltimore of the 1880s.
Mencken covers a range of subjects, from Hoggie Unglebower, the best dog trainer in Christendom, to his visit to the Holy Land, where he looked for the ruins of Gomorrah.
In 1956, Mencken read through his notebooks and extracted certain pieces. This work talks about these pieces.
In the second volume of his autobiography, Mencken recalls his years as a young reporter.
These thirty-five essays-each a stick of dynamite with a burning fuse-have been selected from six volumes originally published between 1919 and 1927.
This chrestomathy ( a collection of literary passages ) incorporates writings about a variety of subjects: politics, war, music, literature, men and women, lawyers, and the brethren of the cloth.
This volume of The American Mercury magazine includes the issues from May 1924 to August 1924. Found in each issue are such columns as Americana, The Arts and Sciences, The…
This volume of The American Mercury magazine includes the issues from May 1925 to August 1925. Found in each issue are such columns as Americana, The Arts and Sciences, The…
Mencken, American newspaperman, editor and critic known for his excellence in framing insults aimed at anyone. This book is written in 1918, and its contents include: The Feminine Mind; The…
THIS 44 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: In Defense of Women, by H. L. Mencken. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 1417905166.
In the second volume of his autobiography, Mencken recalls his early years as a reporter. Mencken learned his craft so well that by 1901 he became the Herald’s Sunday editor…
Written by Mencken, American newspaperman, editor and critic, who is known for framing insults aimed at anyone, this book from Kessinger Publishing contains: Joseph Conrad; Theodore Dreiser; James Huneker; and…
This volume of The American Mercury magazine includes the issues from January 1924 to April 1924. Found in each issue are such columns as Americana, The Arts and Sciences, The…
This volume of The American Mercury magazine includes the issues from September 1924 to December 1924. Found in each issue are such columns as Americana, The Arts and Sciences, The…
This volume of The American Mercury magazine includes the issues from January 1925 to April 1925. Found in each issue are such columns as Americana, The Arts and Sciences, The…
This volume of The American Mercury magazine includes the issues from September 1925 to December 1925. Found in each issue are such columns as Americana, The Arts and Sciences, The…
This volume of The American Mercury magazine includes the issues from January 1926 to April 1926. Found in each issue are such columns as Americana, The Arts and Sciences, The…
This volume of The American Mercury magazine includes the issues from May 1926 to August 1926. Found in each issue are such columns as Americana, The Arts and Sciences, The…
This volume of The American Mercury magazine includes the issues from September 1926 to December 1926. Found in each issue are such columns as Americana, The Arts and Sciences, The…
This volume of The American Mercury magazine includes the issues from January 1927 to April 1927. Found in each issue are such columns as Americana, The Arts and Sciences, The…
This volume of The American Mercury magazine includes the issues from May 1927 to August 1927. Found in each issue are such columns as Americana, The Arts and Sciences, The…
This volume of The American Mercury magazine includes the issues from September 1927 to December 1927. Found in each issue are such columns as Americana, The Arts and Sciences, The…
This volume of The American Mercury magazine includes the issues from January 1928 to April 1928. Found in each issue are such columns as Americana, The Arts and Sciences, The…
In 1956, at the end of his career, Mencken had produced three volumes of memoirs and steady stream of journalism. For this book, he collected those pieces he thought most…
Collects Mencken’s commentary on religion.
Offering a brief biographical sketch, this book presents explanations of Nietzsche’s basic concepts and attitudes. It analyses Nietzsche’s much-misunderstood concept of the superman, his concept of eternal recurrence, his rejection…
The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche, a classical book, has been considered essential throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made…
These seventy political pieces from the 1920s and 1930s are drawn from Mencken’s famous Monday columns in the Baltimore Evening Sun.
Searing dispatches on the first confrontation between American fundamentalism and science, collected in print for the first time.
The book
A Book of Burlesques, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by…
A Book of Prefaces, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by…
In Defense of Women, a classic since it was first published. Has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made…
This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the…
Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956), better known as H. L. Mencken, was a journalist, satirist, social critic, cynic, and freethinker, known as the Sage of Baltimore. He is regarded as one…
What started as a correspondence between an illustrious personage and an ardent fan developed into a friendship between two individuals with congenial temperaments, interests, and tastes
Professor H L Mencken
Sanders has reconstructed and annotated this correspondence.
Mark Twain
Expansive, thoughtful, irreverent, and entertaining, What Is Man? and Other Essays is essential reading for Twain enthusiasts and lovers of American literature. Includes an essay by H. L. Mencken and…
Jack Sanders
