A Second Mencken Chrestomathy
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- Synopsis
- Gathered by Mencken himself before he died in 1956, this second Chrestomathy -- a collection of selected literary passages, with the accent on the tom -- contains writings about a variety of subjects -- politics, war, music, literature, men and women, lawyers, brethren of the cloth. Some of his essays have beguiling titles - "Notes for an Honest Autobiography", "The Commonwealth of Morons", "Le Vice Anglais", "Acres of Babble", "Hooch for the Artist". All of them are a pleasure to read, and we are reminded that what Mencken wrote in the early years of this century remains applicable to a very different America.
- Copyright:
- 1994
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 505 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780679428299
- Publisher:
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Date of Addition:
- 10/18/09
- Copyrighted By:
- Enoch Pratt Free Library Editing
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Biographies and Memoirs, Literature and Fiction
- Submitted By:
- Daproim Africa
- Proofread By:
- Daproim Africa
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
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