H. L. Mencken Prejudices: the Complete Series: a Library of America Boxed Set 1st thru 6th series

Mencken, H. L.

ISBN 10: 1598530763 / ISBN 13: 9781598530766

Published by Library of America, New York, 2010

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This book is in excellent condition. It is clean; with no writing, no highlighting, and no marks anywhere inside. ; none; 8.5 X 5.4 X 2.8 inches; 1408 pages.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: H. L. Mencken Prejudices: the Complete Series: a Library of America Boxed Set 1st thru 6th series
• Publisher: Library of America, New York
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1598530763
• ISBN 13: 9781598530766
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Printing.
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: New

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Synopsis

Few writers roiled the American cultural scene like Henry Louis Mencken. Pathbreaking journalist, trenchant social observer, and unbridled humorist, Mencken was the most provocative and influential cultural critic of the last century. To read him today is to be plunged into an era whose culture wars were easily as ferocious as our own, in the company of a writer of boundless curiosity and vivacious frankness. In the six volumes of Prejudices published between 1919 and 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. Now, The Library of America restores the full text of Mencken's landmark work to print in a deluxe two- volume boxed set, ensuring that new generations of readers can rediscover his one-of-a-kind genius.

LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.

About the Author

Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956), the "Sage of Baltimore," was the most provocative and influential journalist and cultural critic in twentieth-century America.