H.L. Mencken

• Mar-2004
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American author, critic, newspaper man, and iconoclast, H. L. Mencken maintained that women are smarter than men and cited numerous examples of the female's overwhelming skill and cunning to support his position. Originally published in 1922, this bo...

• Sep-2006
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With a style that combined biting sarcasm with the "language of the free lunch counter," Henry Louis Mencken shook politics and politicians for nearly half a century. Now, fifty years after Mencken's death, the Johns Hopkins University Press annou...

• Oct-2006
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"Under all his stories there ebbs and flows a kind of tempered melancholy, a sense of seeking and not finding...." I take the words from a little book on Joseph Conrad by Wilson Follett, privately printed, and now, I believe, out of print. They defin...

• Mar-2008
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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and...

• May-2008
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HELIOGABALUS A BUFFOONERY IiV THREE ACTS by H. L. MENCKEN and GEORGE JEAN NATHAN was originally published in 1920. In its present form this play is dedicated to the reading public only. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to th...

• Mar-2010
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Book Excerpt: ...A pedal point on B flat is heard at the end of this fugue, sounded fortissimo by all the brass in unison, and then follows a grand pause, twelve and a half measures in length. Then, in the strings, is heard the motive of warning&...

• Feb-2012
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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 pic...

• Feb-2012
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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 was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefo...

• May-2012
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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 forte and instead focused his energy on the essays and criticism that made hi...

• Jul-2012
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This volume contains the complete text of two books. H. L. Mencken translated the book The Philosophy of Frederick Nietzsche from the original German. The second book, The Antichrist, was written by F. W. Nietzsche and translated by Mencken, who a...

• Aug-2012
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This volume contains the complete text of seven books. Six of them, Damn! A Book Of Calumny, A Book Of Prefaces, A Book Of Burlesques, The American Credo, In Defense Of Women, and Europe After 8:15 were written by H. L. Mencken.A seventh book, The An...

• Sep-2012
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This volume contains five works by Henry Louis Mencken: “Pistols for Two,” “Heliogabalus,” “The Artist: A Drama Without Words,” “Suggestions to Our Visitors,” and “George Bernard Shaw: Hi...

• Mar-2013
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H.L. Mencken, in his illustrious career as a journalist, made his reputation with satirical writing and controversial ideals. Although his is a name not customarily associated with short fiction, it was his first literary love. From 1900 to 1919, he ...