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Availability:In StockContributor:H. L. MenckenPublish date:2016-12-28Pages:142
Language:EnglishPublisher:Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformISBN-13:9781541321847ISBN-10:1541321847UPC:9781541321847Book Category:Literary Collections, HistoryBook Subcategory:Essays, American, United StatesBook Topic:20th CenturySize:9.02 x 5.98 x 0.30 inchesWeight:0.4409Product ID:SC3Q79J00A
Henry Louis Mencken (September 12, 1880 - January 29, 1956) was an American journalist, satirist, cultural critic and scholar of American English. Known as the "Sage of Baltimore", he is regarded as one of the most influential American writers and prose stylists of the first half of the twentieth century. He commented widely on the social scene, literature, music, prominent politicians and contemporary movements. His satirical reporting on the Scopes trial, which he dubbed the "Monkey Trial", also gained him attention. In the six volumes of Prejudices (1919-1927), Mencken attacked what he felt to be American provincialism and hypocrisy, and championed writers and thinkers he saw as harbingers of a new candor and maturity. Laced with savage humor and delighting in verbal play, Mencken's prose remains a one-of-a-kind roller coaster ride over a staggering range of thematic territory: literature and journalism, politics and religion, sex and marriage, food and drink, music and painting, the absurdities of Prohibition and the dismal state of American higher education, and the relative merits of Baltimore and New York.x
Language:EnglishPublisher:Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformISBN-13:9781541321847ISBN-10:1541321847UPC:9781541321847Book Category:Literary Collections, HistoryBook Subcategory:Essays, American, United StatesBook Topic:20th CenturySize:9.02 x 5.98 x 0.30 inchesWeight:0.4409Product ID:SC3Q79J00A
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

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