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The Anti-Christ from Independent Publishers Group Price: $6.95 Customer Review:  This is Nietzsche's most vigorous work; it conains in little over one hundred pages, a summary of his later philosophy, and as such, should probably be read after all of his other works if one means to avoid misunderstanding what Nietzsche is saying. He portrays Christianity in gory detail as the... |
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The American Language from Knopf Price: $37.40 Customer Review: We all knew Mencken was a master of wit, but little did we know that his mastery of words could also be introspective to the language itself. As a linguistics major, I found this tome extremely interesting. If you want meticulous detail on the historyu and the divergence from the British English,... |
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Mencken Chrestomathy from Vintage Books USA Price: $13.97 Customer Review: I really like this book. Mencken's prose and unflinching attitude is like no other author I have read. I don't know if they used the middle finger in the early 1900s but if so, then HLM was its personification. If you were to tally his word usage in the book I believe "idiot", "imbecile", "buffoon",... |
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Prejudices: A Selection (Maryland Paperback Bookshelf) from Johns Hopkins University Press Price: $19.95 Customer Review: I have recently finished "Prejudices," by H.L. Mencken. I knew little of the author, save that which I had gleaned by reading one of his other books ("A Discourse on the Gods," I think it was.) But, after coming away from the Satanic wag's essays, I am inclined to accord him a place in the pantheon... |
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A Second Mencken Chrestomathy from Alfred A. Knopf Price: $20.40 Customer Review: Perhaps in some ways even better than the first Chrestomathy, this postumous book is still another shining example of Mencken's prolificacy and erudition. The Mencken oeuvre would be incomplete without it, and America's 20th-century heritage would be certainly poorer. |
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The Vintage Mencken from Vintage Books USA Price: $10.40 Customer Review: Things aren't what they used to be; but what's more, they *really* were, and you can get no better picture of the first half of the American century than this book provides. Primarily consisting of Mencken's *The Free Lance* columns for the Baltimore Sun-Times, this book provides a picture of a... |
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New Dictionary of Quotations on Historical Principles from Ancient and Modern Sources from Alfred A. Knopf Price: $51.00 Customer Review: This is not a new book, but it is loaded with great quotations, and they are well documented. It is subject- rather than author organized, which makes it easier to browse by topic, in my mind, making it more useful for someone seeking quotations for writing or speaking. As a quotation book... |
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Newspaper Days: 1899-1906 (Maryland Paperback Bookshelf) from Johns Hopkins University Press Price: $17.16 Customer Review: It's great to see that much of Mencken's work is still available to the common people. It shouldn't be isolated in Baltimore's Enoch Pratt Free Library, and/or Johns Hopkins' University. The H.L.Mencken room at the Pratt, has been called "the cradle of 20th Century literature." Alistair Cooke,... |
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Minority Report: H.L. Mencken's Notebooks (Maryland Paperback Bookshelf) from Johns Hopkins University Press Price: $13.97 Customer Review: This is a wonderful collection of pithy Mencken writings which you may often see quoted. If you have no intention of reading his full essays, read this. This was one of the best bathroom books I have ever had. It is funny, amusing, nihilistic, and condescendingly brutal (or is it brutally... |
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H.L. Mencken on Religion from Prometheus Books Price: $19.72 Customer Review: Skip the introduction; editor Joshi strays from the topic by questioning Mencken's "fanatical loathing" of Roosevelt, while ignoring similar diatribes he wrote against Harding, Coolidge and Hoover. Page 133 of Thirty-Five Years of Newspaper Work provides Mencken's rebuttal: "....in all my life I... |
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The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche from See Sharp Press Price: $9.95 Customer Review: Mencken's ability to clearly explain Nietzsche's philosophy in a way that is both accessible to the average reader(that's me) and faithful to the original is impressive. But this doesn't surprise me, and I doubt anyone at all familiar with Mencken's work will be surprised either. What's surprising... |
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H. L. Mencken on American Literature from Ohio University Press Price: $44.95 Customer Review: Ohio Univ. Press has finally released the long awaited edited, annotated volume of Mencken's literary reviews and essays dating generally from 1910 to 1930, most having never been reprinted before now, and it is a wonderful collection. In addition to being a renowned newspaper reporter, editorial... |
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In Defense of Women from Dover Publications Price: $6.95 Customer Review: I must have missed the part in which he defended women, but that's ok because it was a fun ride nonetheless. He claims women are more intelligent and clear-headed than men, but the cause of this is not an inherent trait in women. It's based on their physical inferiority and the necessity of... |
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Treatise on the Gods (Maryland Paperback Bookshelf) from Johns Hopkins University Press Price: $13.97 Customer Review: It would be hard to claim, as others have, that this isn't a biased account of religion and it's roots. But one must remember, after all, that Mencken was an educated man. His bias leans in the direction of facts, evidence and rational thought, none of which are helpful in defending religious... |
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My Life As Author and Editor from Vintage Books USA Price: $25.00 Customer Review:  Even after all this time, we still feel the impact of H. L. Mencken's arrival on the literary scene in the opening years of the 20th century. He wrote millions of words, and has been the subject of many biographies. Despite all the ink spilled by and about him, the fragmentary nature of his... |
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Heathen Days: 1890-1936 (Maryland Paperback Bookshelf) from Johns Hopkins University Press Price: $13.97 Customer Review: From Ungie Hornblower to nomination for the vice presidency, Mencken serves up autobiographical shorts that'll make you howl. Though he lived on Hollins Street for most of his life, his stories paint a full picture of "Charm City" from 1890-1936 (at least from the eyes of the most feared and... |
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Happy Days, 1880-1892 (Mencken's Autobiography, Vol 1) from Johns Hopkins University Press Price: $13.97 Customer Review: H.L. Mencken temporarily resigned from his job as a newspaper columnist before the Second World War, deeming his political opinions too controversial for print. In the ensuing interregnal period, he focused his attention on writing a series of memoirs, which later turned into a three volume... |
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American Language, Supplement One (American Language No. 1) from Alfred A. Knopf Price: $50.00 |
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American Language, Supplement Two (American Language No. 1) from Alfred A. Knopf Price: $50.00 |
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H.L. Mencken's Smart Set Criticism from Gateway Editions Price: $10.47 Customer Review: If not for Mencken's absurd racial theories (sadly common at that time)hovering in the background, this would get five stars. Conversely, there are many witty, incisive aspects to his criticism on display in Smart Set, which is also richly represented in the more comprehensive Mencken Chrestomathy.... |
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Mencken's America from Ohio University Press Price: $20.20 |
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The Superfluous Men: Critics of American Culture, 1900-1945 from Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI) Price: $16.97 |
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The Editor, the Bluenose, and the Prostitute: H.L. Mencken's History of the Hatrack Censorship Case from Roberts Rinehart Publishers Price: $29.95 Customer Review: Anybody with an interest in free speech issues will find this account of the "Hatrack Case" fascinating and entertaining. The book recounts an attempt by the federal government to censor a 1926 issue of Mencken's magazine, The American Mercury, because of an ostensibly pornographic short story that... |
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Ich Kuss Die Hand: The Letters of H. L. Mencken to Gretchen Hood from University of Alabama Press Price: $27.50 |
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Prejudices from Ross & Perry, Inc. Price: $29.95 |
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