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    'I am quite convinced that all religions, at bottom, are prettymuch alike. On the surface they may seem to differ greatly, but whatappears on the surface is not always religion. Go beneath it, ...
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    In the fall of 1948 H. L. Mencken, then at the top of his unmatchable form (he had spoken at a meeting of the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia only a little while before), suffered a ...
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    Though best known for his caustic newspaper columns, H.L. Mencken's most enduring contribution to American literature may behis autobiographical writings, most of which first appeared in the Ne...
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    Before there was any such thing as political correctness, H. L. Menckenwas flouting it. He was also cheerfully deriding the precursors offamily values and lambasting the guardians of public vir...
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    Perhaps the first truly important book about the divergence of American English from its British roots, this survey of the language as it was spoken-and as it was changing-at the beginning of the 2...
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    'The native American Voltaire, the enemy of all puritans, the heretic in the Sunday school, the one-man demolition crew of the genteel tradition.' -Alistair CookeFiercely intelligent, scathingl...
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    The American Language, first published in 1919, is H. L. Mencken's book about the English language as spoken in the United States.Mencken was inspired by 'the argot of the colored waiters' in Washi...
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    H. L. Mencken stipulated that this memoir remain sealed in a vault for thirty-five years after his death. For good reason: My Life as Author and Editor is so telling and uproariously opinionated th...
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    The DEFINITIVE EDITION OF The American Language was published in 1936. Since then it has been recognized as a classic. It is that rarest of literary accomplishments-a book that is authoritative and...
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    The period covered is that of his professional nonage-from his entry into journalism as a reporter for the Baltimore Morning Herald in 1899 to 1906. It was not all Baltimore, however, for he went i...
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    H. L. Mencken's diary was, at his own request, kept sealed in the vaults of Baltimore's Enoch Pratt Library for a quarter of a century after his death. The diary covers the years 1930 -- 1948, and ...
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    Edited and annotated by H.L.M., this is a selection from his out-of-print writings. They come mostly from books-the six installments of the Prejudices series, A Book of Burlesques, In Defense of Wo...
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