Prejudices: A Selection
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 announces The Buncombe Collection, newly packaged editions of nine Mencken classics: Happy Days, Heathen Days, Newspaper Days, Prejudices, Treatise on the Gods, On Politics, Thirty-Five Years of Newspaper Work, Minority Report, and A Second Mencken Chrestomathy.These thirty-five essays--each a stick of dynamite with a burning fuse--have been selected from six volumes originally published between 1919 and 19…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8018-8535-8
- EAN: 9780801885358
- Produktnummer: 2568005
- Verlag: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
- Seitenangabe: 288 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.6 cm 417 g
- Auflage: Revised
- Gewicht: 417
- Sonstiges: Ab 18 J.
Über den Autor
Henry Louis Mencken was born in Baltimore in 1880 and remained a lifelong resident. Opinionated and controversial, he wrote columns for the Baltimore Evening Sun that earned him a national reputation. He died in 1956.
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