H. L. Mencken: Prejudices: The Complete Series: A Library of America Boxed Set

Name: H. L. Mencken: Prejudices: The Complete Series: A Library of America Boxed Set
Brand: Library of America
SKU: 9781598530766-V
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By Mencken, H. L.

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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.

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Binding:: Paperback
Number of Pages:: 1408
Release Date:: 2010-09-02
Publication Date:: 2010-09-30
Publisher:: Library of America
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 1598530763
ISBN13:: 9781598530766
Minimum Reading Age:: 18
Weight:: 1369 g
Height:: 13.7 cm
Width:: 21.9 cm
Thickness:: 7.4 cm

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