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Professor H L Mencken
This is a new release of the original 1924 edition.
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This is a new release of the original 1926 edition.
Originally published in 1918, this book considers topics that remain of vital interest to today’s readers, including monogamy and polygamy, the double standard, sexual harassment, and declining marriage rates. Written…
(LARGE PRINT EDITION) This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.
Originally published in 1922, this book considers topics that remain of vital interest to today’s readers, including monogamy and polygamy, the double standard, sexual harassment, and declining marriage rates.
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The first book on Nietzsche ever to appear in English, this examination by legendary journalist H. L. Mencken is still one of the most enlightening. Mencken wrote this book while…
In Defense of Women is a book written by H.L. Mencken, first published in 1918. The book is a collection of essays and musings on the topic of women and…
Four of H.L. Mencken’s Prefaces – which are, in fact, major essays on literature – are collected herein, including works on Joseph Conrad, Theodore Dreiser, James Huneker, and Puritanism as…
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing’s Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because…
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1919 Edition.
Excerpt: … say that their own country understood them. Both were better and more quickly apprehended in France, and it was in France, not in America, that each founded a…
Originally published in 1907 – Title page verso.
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe…
Previously published: New York: A.A. Knopf, 1921.
This is a new release of the original 1928 edition.
(LARGE PRINT EDITION) A Splendid Basket Of Ripe One-Liners From America’s Champion Of Wit And Cleared-Eyed Opinionists.
Puritanism As A Literary Force is a book written by H.L. Mencken that explores the impact of Puritanism on American literature. Mencken argues that Puritanism, with its emphasis on strict…
A Splendid Basket Of Ripe One-Liners From America’s Champion Of Wit And Cleared-Eyed Opinionists.
A new, completely revised and much extended edition of H. L. Mencken’s well-known work first issued in a limited edition as a preliminary inquiry in 1919, this book is the…
THIS 36 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: In Defense of Women, by H. L. Mencken. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 1417905166.
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 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 is a new release of the original 1927 edition.
This groundbreaking study clarifies the differences between British and American English and defines the distinguishing characteristics of American English. Cigar-chomping newspaperman H. L. Mencken succeeds not only in providing a…
H. L. Mencken
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
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Sanders has reconstructed and annotated this correspondence.
Professor H L Mencken,George Jean Nathan
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1921 Edition.
Henry Louis Mencken,Professor H L Mencken
""George Bernard Shaw: His Plays"" is a book written by Henry Louis Mencken in 1905. The book offers a comprehensive analysis of the plays of the renowned Irish playwright, George…
Before H. L. Mencken became Mencken he tried his hand at writing short stories for a wide variety of popular magazines. But ultimately he decided that fiction was not his…
