- Publisher : Notoir Books (December 15, 2020)
- Language: : English
- Paperback : 212 pages
- ISBN-13 : 979-8582012245
- Item Weight : 8.8 ounces
- Dimensions : 5.5 x 0.48 x 8.5 inches
Iconoclast H. L. Mencken was unquestionably the most provocative and influential journalist and cultural critic in twentieth-century America. His volumes of Prejudices, published between 1919 and 1927, were both a scathing yet humorous attack on what Mencken saw as American provincialism and hypocrisy and a resounding defense of the writers and thinkers he thought of as harbingers of a new frankness and maturity.
Laced with savage humor and delighting in verbal play, Mencken’s prose remains a one-of-a-kind roller-coaster ride through a staggering range of themes: literature and journalism, politics and religion, sex and marriage, food and drink.
This book is part of a series. You can buy them one-by-one, but the smart thing to do is to BUY THE WHOLE SERIES.
Prejudices: First series contains the following essays:
1. CRITICISM OF CRITICISM OF CRITICISM
2. THE LATE MR. WELLS
3. ARNOLD BENNETT
4. THE DEAN
5. PROFESSOR VEBLEN
6. THE NEW POETRY MOVEMENT
7. THE HEIR OF MARK TWAIN
8. HERMANN SUDERMANN
9. GEORGE ADE
10. THE BUTTE BASHKIRTSEFF
11. SIX MEMBERS OF THE INSTITUTE
The Boudoir Balzac
A Stranger on Parnassus
A Merchant of Mush
The Last of the Victorians
A Bad Novelist
A Broadway Brandes
12. THE GENEALOGY OF ETIQUETTE
13. THE AMERICAN MAGAZINE
14. THE ULSTER POLONIUS
15. AN UNHEEDED LAW-GIVER
16. THE BLUSHFUL MYSTERY
Sex Hygiene
Art and Sex
A Loss to Romance
Sex on the Stage
17. GEORGE JEAN NATHAN
18. PORTRAIT OF AN IMMORTAL SOUL
19. JACK LONDON
20. AMONG THE AVATARS
21. THREE AMERICAN IMMORTALS
Aristotelean Obsequies
Edgar Allan Poe
Memorial Service
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