H.L. Mencken on Music

Arts & Photography

H.L.Mencken

Louis Cheslock

Music

Macmillan Pub. Co.

Presents the private correspondence between H.L. Mencken and his wife, offering important new insights into the life, work, and personality of one of the most influential literary figures

Mencken and Sara: A Life in Letters : The Private Correspondence of H.L. Mencken and Sara Haardt

Marion Elizabeth Rodgers

Sara Haardt

Sara Haardt Mencken

Biographies & Memoirs

McGraw=Hill

George Bernard Shaw; His Plays

Literature & Fiction

Dramas & Plays

Franklin Classics Trade Press

A Book of Calumny

[Democracy] is, perhaps, the most charming form of government ever devised by man... It 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...H.L. Mencken, America's greatest journalist and critic, wrote Notes on Democracy 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. Notes isn't just a blast from the past, but also a perceptive and unsentimental report on contemporary life.Dissident Books is proud to reintroduce this gem of cynicism and clear-thinking to a new generation. Mencken performs a brilliant, merciless and often hilarious vivisection on that most holy of sacred cows: democracy. The new edition is supplemented by extensive annotations that put Mencken's words and ideas in context and expose fascinating details and nuances.Don't even think about voting until you read this book!

Notes on Democracy

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

Octagon Books

Perhaps the first truly important book about the divergence of American English from its British roots, this survey of the language as it was spoken-and as it was changing-at the beginning of the 20th century comes via one of its most inveterate watchers, journalist, critic, and editor HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN (1880-1956).In this replica of the 1921 "revised and enlarged" second edition, Mencken turns his keen ear on:• the general character of American English• loan-words and non-English influences• expletives and forbidden words• American slang• the future of the language• and much, much more.Anyone fascinated by words will find this a thoroughly enthralling look at the most changeable language on the face of the planet.

The American Language Supplement 1 :The American Language: An Inquiry Into the Development of English in the United States

History

Europe

Alfred.A. Knopf

A critical evaluation of American literature, politics, language, and religion by this author and journalist expressing his skepticism and positivism

H. L. Mencken. The American Scene. A Reader

Huntington Cairns (editor)

KNOPF

The brilliantly irreverent newspaperman and dedicated debunker sketches his own life in a work drawn from three previously released autobiographical tomes

A Choice of Days: Essays From Happy Days, Newspaper Days and Heathen Days

A Historical Treasure: the never-before, published diary of the most outspoken, iconoclastic, ferociously articulate of American social critics -- the sui generis newspaperman, columnist for the Baltimore Sun, editor of The American Mercury, and author of The American Language, who was admired, feared, and famous for his merciless puncturing of smugness, his genius for deflating pomposity and pretense, his polemical brilliance. Walter Lippmann called him, in 1926, "the most powerful personal influence on this whole generation of educated Americans." 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.

The Diary of H.L. Mencken

Arts & Literature

The American satirist reveals his view of early-twentieth century life in this compilation of essays drawn from his six volumes of Prejudices

MENCKEN PREJUDICES V58

Vintage

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