{"title":"H L Mencken","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"vintage-mencken-book-hl-mencken-9780679728955","title":"The Vintage Mencken","description":"The anthology that spans an entire lifetime of writing by America's greatest curmudgeon, with a flick of mischief on nearly every page.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":49503630590225,"sku":"CIN0679728953A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49544304460049,"sku":"GOR005759164","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49548448956689,"sku":"GOR002081468","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49604425810193,"sku":"GOR009799359","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49728575996177,"sku":"NGR9780679728955","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49773455868177,"sku":"CIN0679728953G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50418317033745,"sku":"CIN0679728953VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50755381526801,"sku":"GOR008998540","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51005556097297,"sku":"NIN9780679728955","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52659132727569,"sku":"NLS9780679728955","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0679728953.jpg?v=1751262404"},{"product_id":"damn-a-book-of-calumny-1918-book-h-l-mencken-9781164227496","title":"Damn! A Book Of Calumny (1918)","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49519375057169,"sku":"GOR012963644","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51151759933713,"sku":"NIN9781164227496","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1164227491.jpg?v=1751082071"},{"product_id":"dictionary-of-quotations-book-h-l-mencken-9780004345697","title":"Dictionary of Quotations","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49569465696529,"sku":"GOR006815030","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50098921144593,"sku":"GOR013854715","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/000434569X.jpg?v=1751194156"},{"product_id":"vintage-mencken-book-h-l-mencken-9780394700250","title":"Vintage Mencken","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49583524643089,"sku":"GOR006072088","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50317239910673,"sku":"GOR002821821","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50684151988497,"sku":"GOR003802789","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0394700252.jpg?v=1751293171"},{"product_id":"american-language-book-h-l-mencken-9781434103260","title":"The American Language","description":"This groundbreaking study clarifies the differences between British and American English and defines the distinguishing characteristics of American English. Cigar-chomping newspaperman H. L. Mencken succeeds not only in providing a lucid description of the American language but also in making his readers laugh, wince, and nod in agreement. It's a readable and fascinating study on why you say tomayto and I say tomahto. A must read for anyone who loves words.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49595832566033,"sku":"GOR012932023","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50281247572241,"sku":"CIN1434103269G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51025912889617,"sku":"NIN9781434103260","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52106110304529,"sku":"CIN1434103269VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1434103269.jpg?v=1751146886"},{"product_id":"american-language-a-preliminary-inquiry-into-the-development-of-english-in-the-u-book-h-l-mencken-9789354033018","title":"The American language; a preliminary inquiry into the development of English in the United States","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49624208310545,"sku":"GOR013181736","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51067385577745,"sku":"NIN9789354033018","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52690687918353,"sku":"NLS9789354033018","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9354033016.jpg?v=1751191414"},{"product_id":"h-l-mencken-prejudices-the-complete-series-book-h-l-mencken-9781598530766","title":"H. L. Mencken: Prejudices: The Complete Series","description":"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 \u003ci\u003ePrejudices\u003c\/i\u003e 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.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49668582277393,"sku":"GOR009022311","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1598530763.jpg?v=1751056400"},{"product_id":"happy-days-1880-92-book-h-l-mencken-9780801853388","title":"Happy Days, 1880-92","description":"Though best known for his caustic newspaper columns, H. L. Mencken's most enduring contribution to American literature may be his autobiographical writings, most of which first appeared in the 'New Yorker'. In 'Happy Days', Mencken recalls memories of a safe and happy boyhood in the Baltimore of the 1880s and celebrates a way of life that he saw swiftly changing--from a time of straw hats and buggy rides to locomotives and bread lines.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49713743495441,"sku":"GOR005286543","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50362822754577,"sku":"CIN0801853389G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0801853389.jpg?v=1751395059"},{"product_id":"letters-of-h-l-mencken-book-h-l-mencken-9780930350178","title":"Letters of H. L. Mencken","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49800556904721,"sku":"CIN0930350170VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0930350170.jpg?v=1751397370"},{"product_id":"on-politics-book-h-l-mencken-9780801853425","title":"On Politics","description":"With a style that combined biting sarcasm with the language of the free lunch counter, Mencken shook politics and politicians for nearly half a century. The political arena afforded Mencken a special opportunity to showcase his talents. He despised hypocrisy and found numerous easy targets among politicians. But while he could be merciless in attacking local and national leaders, Mencken always interspersed his scathing commentaries with entertaining exaggeration and high humor. This collection of seventy political pieces, drawn from Mencken's famous Monday columns in the Baltimore Evening Sun during the twenties and thirties, shows the Sage of Baltimore at his satirical best. While social attitudes may have changed, the value of Mencken's words on American politics offers us a timeless perspective.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49803434590481,"sku":"CIN0801853427G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0801853427.jpg?v=1750849451"},{"product_id":"h-l-mencken-the-days-trilogy-expanded-edition-loa-257-book-h-l-mencken-9781598533088","title":"H. L. Mencken: The Days Trilogy, Expanded Edition (LOA #257)","description":"\u003cb\u003eA major literary event: Mencken's dazzling autobiography, with 200 pages of his own never-before-published commentary and photos.\u003c\/b\u003e In 1936, at the age of fifty-five, H. L. Mencken published a reminiscence about his boyhood in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, beginning a long and magnificent adventure in autobiography by America's greatest journalist. Mencken went on to gather his childhood recollections in \u003ci\u003eHappy Days\u003c\/i\u003e (1940), a richly detailed, poignant account of growing up in Baltimore. A critical and popular success, the book surprised many with its glimpses of a less curmudgeonly Mencken, and there soon followed the absorbing sequels \u003ci\u003eNewspaper Days\u003c\/i\u003e (1941), charting his rise at the Baltimore Herald from cub reporter to editor, and \u003ci\u003eHeathen Days\u003c\/i\u003e (1943), recounting his varied excursions as journalist and public figure, including his coverage of the Scopes trial in 1925. But unknown to the legions of \u003ci\u003eDays\u003c\/i\u003e books' admirers, Mencken continued to add to them after publication, annotating and expanding each volume in typescripts sealed to the public for twenty-five years after his death. Until now, most of this material--often more frank and unvarnished than the original \u003ci\u003eDays\u003c\/i\u003e books--has never been published. Containing nearly 200 pages of previously unseen writing, and illustrated with photographs from Mencken's archives, many taken by Mencken himself, this expanded and definitive edition of the \u003ci\u003eDays\u003c\/i\u003e trilogy is a cause for celebration.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eLIBRARY OF AMERICA\u003c\/b\u003e 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.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49882502955281,"sku":"CIN1598533088VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49889328595217,"sku":"CIN1598533088G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1598533088.jpg?v=1779443290"},{"product_id":"friedrich-nietzsche-book-hl-mencken-9781560006497","title":"Friedrich Nietzsche","description":"The decisive influence of Friedrich Nietzsche on H","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49884424831249,"sku":"CIN1560006498G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52484204003601,"sku":"NLS9781560006497","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52899654402321,"sku":"GOR014655202","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":53498049757457,"sku":"CIN1560006498VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1560006498.jpg?v=1750798960"},{"product_id":"newspaper-days-1899-1906-book-h-l-mencken-9780801853401","title":"Newspaper Days, 1899-1906","description":"In the second volume of his autobiographical writings, H. L. Mencken recalls his early years as a reporter. On January 16, 1899, Mencken applied for a job with the Baltimore Morning Herald, much to the editor's amusement. But Mencken persisted, and came back to the offices night after night until finally, in February, the editor sent him out into a blizzard to see if anything worth printing was happening on the snow-covered streets. Soon, Mencken was assigned to the police beat, and then to city hall, where the really big crooks worked. Mencken learned his craft so well that by 1901 he had become the Herald's Sunday editor, and in 1906 he was hired as an editor of the Baltimore Sun, where he quickly attracted a national following. Sustained by a steady diet of crabs, cigars, whiskey, and beer, he haunted Baltimore's jails and courtrooms, its churches, theaters, and saloons, and chased fire wagons, interviewed cops and coroners, battled politicians and crusaders, then raced back to the newsroom to beat his deadline by a second or two.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49909466792209,"sku":"CIN0801853400VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50485510734097,"sku":"CIN0801853400G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0801853400.jpg?v=1750849451"},{"product_id":"my-life-as-author-and-editor-book-hl-mencken-9780679741022","title":"My Life as Author and Editor","description":"H. L. Mencken stipulated that this memoir remain sealed in a vault for thirty-five years after his death. For good reason: \u003ci\u003eMy Life as Author and Editor\u003c\/i\u003e is so telling and uproariously opinionated that it might have provoked a storm of libel suits. As he recounts his career as a critic, essayist, and editor of the ground-breaking magazine \u003ci\u003eSmart Set\u003c\/i\u003e, Mencken brings us face to face with the literary aristocracy of his day, from the dour womanizer Theodore Dreiser to F. Scott Fitzgerald, drowning his gifts in alcohol. Here, too, are the hacks, poseurs, and bohemian crackpots who flocked around them. Most of all, here is Mencken himself, defying censors and Prohibition agents with equal aplomb in an age when literature was a contact sport.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49911085826321,"sku":"CIN067974102XG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51829546254609,"sku":"CIN067974102XVG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":52942288257297,"sku":"CIN067974102XA","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53008857432337,"sku":"NIN9780679741022","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53580234195217,"sku":"GOR014969516","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/067974102X.jpg?v=1750945011"},{"product_id":"mencken-chrestomathy-book-hl-mencken-9780394752099","title":"A Mencken Chrestomathy","description":"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, \u003ci\u003eA Book of Burlesques\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eIn Defense of Women\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNotes on Democracy\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMaking a President\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eA Book of Calumny\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTreatise on Right and Wrong\u003c\/i\u003e--but there are also magazine and newspaper pieces that never got between covers (from the \u003ci\u003eAmerican Mercury\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eSmart Set, \u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eBaltimore Evening Sun\u003c\/i\u003e) and some notes that were never previously published at all. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Readers will find edification and amusement in his estimates of a variety of Americans--Woodrow Wilson, Aimee Semple McPherson, Roosevelt I and Roosevelt I, James Gibbons Huneker, Rudolph Valentino, Calvin Coolidge, Ring Lardner, Theodore Dreiser, and Walt Whitman. Those musically inclined will enjoy his pieces on Beethoven, Schubert, and Wagner, and there is material for a hundred controversies in his selections on Joseph Conrad, Thorstein Veblen, Nietzsche, and Madame Blavatsky.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":49916654977297,"sku":"CIN0394752090A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50042373144849,"sku":"CIN0394752090G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50132823736593,"sku":"GOR005842109","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50634668638481,"sku":"CIN0394752090VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51002088161553,"sku":"NIN9780394752099","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52134404391185,"sku":"NLS9780394752099","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52378945224977,"sku":"GOR011233845","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52843304354065,"sku":"GOR002326771","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0394752090.jpg?v=1750845639"},{"product_id":"treatise-on-the-gods-book-h-l-mencken-9780801856549","title":"Treatise on the Gods","description":"'\"I am quite convinced that all religions, at bottom, are pretty much alike. On the surface they may seem to differ greatly, but what appears on the surface is not always religion. Go beneath it, and one finds invariably the same sense of helplessness before the cosmic mysteries, and the same pathetic attempt to resolve it by appealing to higher powers.\"--from Treatise on the Gods' H. L. Mencken is perhaps best known for his scathing political satire. But politicians, as far as Mencken was concerned, had no monopoly on self-righteous chest-thumping, deceit, and thievery.  He also found religion to be an adversary worthy of his attention and, in 'Treatise on the Gods', he offers some of his best shots, a choreographed cannonade.  Mencken examines religion everywhere, from India to Peru, from the myths of Egypt to the traditional beliefs of America's Bible Belt. He compares Incas and Greeks, examines doctrines, dogmas, sacred texts, heresies, and ceremonies. He ranges far and wide, but returns at last to the subject that most provokes him: Christianity. He reviews the history of the Church and its founders. \"It is Tertullian who is credited with the motto, Credo, quia absurdum est: I believe because it is incredible. Needless to say, he began life as a lawyer.\" Mencken is no less interested in the dissidents: \"The Reformers were men of courage, but not many of them were intelligent.\" Against the old-time religion of fellow countrymen, Mencken posed as a figure of old-time skepticism, and he reaped the whirlwind. Controversial even before it was published in 1930, 'Treatise on the Gods' remains what its author wished it to be: the plain, clear challenge of honest doubt.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49993863233809,"sku":"CIN080185654XG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51328401211665,"sku":"CIN080185654XVG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51767615062289,"sku":"GOR008803781","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52504932352273,"sku":"GOR003169742","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/080185654X.jpg?v=1750914589"},{"product_id":"second-mencken-chrestomathy-book-h-l-mencken-9780679428299","title":"The Second Mencken Chrestomathy","description":"\u003cp\u003eWith a style that combined biting sarcasm with the language of the free lunch counter, Henry Louis Mencken shook politics and politicians for nearly half a century. Now, fifty years after Mencken's death, the Johns Hopkins University Press announces \u003cb\u003eThe Buncombe Collection\u003c\/b\u003e, newly packaged editions of nine Mencken classics: \u003ci\u003eHappy Days\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHeathen Days\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNewspaper Day\u003c\/i\u003es, \u003ci\u003ePrejudices\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTreatise on the Gods\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOn Politics\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThirty-Five Years of Newspaper Work\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMinority Report\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eA Second Mencken Chrestomathy\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDiscovered among his private papers and edited by columnist Terry Teachout, this collection is full of the iconoclastic common sense that marked Mencken's astonishing career as the premier American social critic of the twentieth century. This chrestomathy (a collection of literary passages) incorporates writings about a variety of subjects: politics, war, music, literature, men and women, lawyers, and the brethren of the cloth.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50007734059281,"sku":"CIN0679428291G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50508621119761,"sku":"CIN0679428291VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51539592085777,"sku":"GOR014321072","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0679428291.jpg?v=1751230800"},{"product_id":"happy-days-1880-1892-rare-book-h-l-mencken-1647434405mhp","title":"Happy Days 1880-1892","description":"1940. First Published in England. 313 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Pages are lightly tanned and foxed throughout, heavier to endpapers and pastedowns. Minor pencil inscription to front free endpa","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50071313285393,"sku":"1647434405MHP","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1647434405MHP_1.jpg?v=1722872816"},{"product_id":"prejudices-sixth-series-rare-book-h-l-mencken-1676385894iev","title":"Prejudices: Sixth Series","description":"No Edition Remarks. 317 pages. Beige jacket over yellow cloth. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed, but text remains clear. Noticeable marking to some pages throughout; text is not obscured. Binding","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50075077869841,"sku":"1676385894IEV","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1676385894IEV_1.jpg?v=1722886011"},{"product_id":"americana-1925-rare-book-h-l-mencken-1668166613tmb","title":"Americana 1925","description":"1925. No Edition Stated. 308 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Binding remains firm.Pages are moderately tanned. More pronounced tanning and foxing to free end papers and pastedow","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50076898820369,"sku":"1668166613TMB","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1668166613TMB_1.jpg?v=1722892133"},{"product_id":"the-american-language-an-inquiry-into-the-development-of-english-in-the-united-s-rare-book-h-l-mencken-1676032534emb","title":"The American Language: An Inquiry Into the Development of English in the United States","description":"1963. 777 pages. Black pictorial dust jacket over red cloth. Insert to front endpaper. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a lit","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50077900341521,"sku":"1676032534EMB","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1676032534EMB_1.jpg?v=1722895900"},{"product_id":"the-days-of-h-l-mencken-happy-days-newspaper-days-heathen-days-rare-book-h-l-mencken-1647846616mha","title":"The Days of H.L. Mencken: Happy Days, Newspaper Days, Heathen Days","description":"1947. First Edition. 299 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth. Jacket is in plastic wrapper. Pages are lightly tanned and foxed throughout. Minor pencil inscription to front pastedown. Binding","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50078226546961,"sku":"1647846616MHA","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1647846616MHA_1.jpg?v=1722897096"},{"product_id":"in-defence-of-women-the-travellers-library-rare-book-h-l-mencken-1676387207iev","title":"In Defence of Women; The Travellers' Library","description":"1927. 113 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxin","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50078499471633,"sku":"1676387207IEV","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1676387207IEV_1.jpg?v=1722898084"},{"product_id":"the-american-language-rare-book-h-l-mencken-1715582602ada","title":"The American Language","description":"1941. 1941 Reprint. 769 pages. No dust jacket. Black cloth with gilt lettering. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50088108884241,"sku":"1715582602ADA","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1715582602ADA_1.jpg?v=1722932541"},{"product_id":"minority-report-book-h-l-mencken-9780801856587","title":"Minority Report","description":"In 1956 Mencken could look back on a long and distinguished career that included years at the top of his profession, the publication of three volumes of memoirs, and a steady stream of journalism that made him loved and hated, sometimes by the same person. For Minority Report, he read through his notebooks, extracting those pieces he thought most true, most pertinent, most precise or most likely to blow the dust out of a reader's brain. Here he shows off his skill with the aphorism, or stinger: The most expensive thing on earth is to believe in something that is palpably not true; We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart; Metaphysics is a refuge for men who have a strong desire to appear learned and profound but have nothing worth hearing to say.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50095092203793,"sku":"CIN0801856582G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50500850024721,"sku":"CIN0801856582A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50759795671313,"sku":"GOR004103211","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52331532648721,"sku":"NLS9780801856587","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52740093214993,"sku":"NIN9780801856587","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0801856582.jpg?v=1750849456"},{"product_id":"collected-poems-book-h-l-mencken-9780982429631","title":"Collected Poems","description":"This book presents advances in additive manufacturing techniques, the utilization of plasma chemistry to enhance surface functionalization, and manipulation of photo-polymerization to investigate new approaches to assemble cell-laden microfluidics. Specifically; studying of SU-8's potential to serve as a bio-compatible material for the development of microfluidic chips with enhanced cell attachment and proliferation. Utilizing a digital mirroring system with a multi-nozzle biologics deposition system to assemble cell-laden microfluidics. Exploring a freeform micro-plasma system for the development of a three-dimensional cell-laden microfluidic chip. Develop and characterize an additive fabrication system which utilizes; a multi-nozzle biologics head, a micro-plasma head, an ultra-violet component, and a photo-polymer material delivery component to fabricate 3D micro-architecture. Develop and characterize a cell-laden microfluidic chip to investigate drug metabolism and deliver chip that produces a microfluidic environment which facilitates co-culture of cancerous cells.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50131064094993,"sku":"CIN0982429630G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51010380366097,"sku":"NIN9780982429631","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":51157053473041,"sku":"NGR9780982429631","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53521423302929,"sku":"NLS9780982429631","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0982429630.jpg?v=1750948667"},{"product_id":"happy-days-book-h-l-mencken-9780801885310","title":"Happy Days","description":"Here Mencken recalls memories of a safe and happy boyhood in the Baltimore of the 1880s.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50167515742481,"sku":"CIN0801885310VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52105017065745,"sku":"CIN0801885310G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52414592221457,"sku":"NLS9780801885310","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0801885310.jpg?v=1750914632"},{"product_id":"prejudices-book-h-l-mencken-9780801853418","title":"Prejudices","description":"Here is Mencken at his hyperbolic best-from his thundering blows against politics, through his piercing deflations of pious reputations, to his tireless fusillades against the American plutocracy. He tallies the dubious merits of farmers, professors, economists, congressmen, and preachers. He calculates the displeasures of living in California-and the advantages of living in America: 'Here the general average of intelligence, of knowledge, of competence, of integrity, of self-respect, of honor is so low that any man who knows his trade, does not fear ghosts, has read fifty good books, and practices the common decencies stands out as brilliantly as a wart on a bald head.'","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50168232837393,"sku":"CIN0801853419G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51887620948241,"sku":"GOR003938269","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53080015208721,"sku":"GOR014732620","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0801853419.jpg?v=1750745642"},{"product_id":"notes-on-democracy-book-h-l-mencken-9780977378814","title":"Notes on Democracy","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50177934655761,"sku":"CIN0977378810VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50216648605969,"sku":"CIN0977378810G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50325402747153,"sku":"CIN0977378810A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0977378810.jpg?v=1751299510"},{"product_id":"prejudices-book-h-l-mencken-9781541321847","title":"Prejudices","description":"Henry Louis Mencken (September 12, 1880 - January 29, 1956) was an American journalist, satirist, cultural critic and scholar of American English. Known as the Sage of Baltimore, he is regarded as one of the most influential American writers and prose stylists of the first half of the twentieth century. He commented widely on the social scene, literature, music, prominent politicians and contemporary movements. His satirical reporting on the Scopes trial, which he dubbed the Monkey Trial, also gained him attention. In the six volumes of Prejudices (1919-1927), 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.x","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50248825635089,"sku":"CIN1541321847G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51035439366417,"sku":"NIN9781541321847","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1541321847.jpg?v=1751212694"},{"product_id":"notes-on-democracy-large-print-edition-book-h-l-mencken-9781494288648","title":"Notes on Democracy (Large Print Edition)","description":"Democracy came into the Western World to the tune of sweet, soft music. There was, at the start, no harsh bawling from below there was only a dulcet twittering from above. Democratic man thus began as an ideal being, full of ineffable virtues and romantic wrongs in brief, as Rousseau's noble savage in smock and jerkin, brought out of the tropical wilds to shame the lords and masters of the civilized lands. The fact continues to have important consequences to this day. It remains impossible, as it was in the eighteenth century, to separate the democratic idea from the theory that there is a mystical merit, an esoteric and ineradicable rectitude, in the man at the bottom of the scale - that inferiority, by some strange magic, becomes a sort of superiority - nay, the superiority of superiorities.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50282094788881,"sku":"CIN1494288648G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50718448484625,"sku":"CIN1494288648VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50974044291345,"sku":"GOR010604629","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51030122758417,"sku":"NIN9781494288648","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1494288648.jpg?v=1751423409"},{"product_id":"choice-of-days-book-h-l-mencken-9780394507958","title":"A Choice of Days","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50299542634769,"sku":"CIN0394507959VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0394507959.jpg?v=1751260569"},{"product_id":"diary-of-h-l-mencken-book-h-l-mencken-9780679731764","title":"The Diary of H.L. Mencken","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50321514529041,"sku":"CIN0679731768G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":51504767762705,"sku":"CIN0679731768A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51698460852497,"sku":"CIN0679731768VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0679731768.jpg?v=1751041074"},{"product_id":"h-l-mencken-prejudices-vol-2-loa-207-book-h-l-mencken-9781598530759","title":"H. L. Mencken: Prejudices Vol. 2 (LOA #207)","description":"H. L. Mencken was the most provocative and influential journalist and cultural critic in twentieth-century America. In this volume and a companion, The Library of America presents all six series of \u003ci\u003ePrejudices\u003c\/i\u003e (1919-1927), the iconoclastic collections that helped blast American literature out of its complacency and into a new age of frankness and maturity. The fantastic linguistic inventiveness, full-bodied humor, and unwaveringly fierce courage of his journalism made him a liberating force for his contemporaries.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The final three series show Mencken at his lacerating best, taking on targets from religious fundamentalism to the dismal state of higher education. Included are such famous essays as \"The Hills of Zion,\" his report on the local atmosphere surrounding the Scopes trial in 1925; \"In Memoriam: W.J.B.,\" his relentless postmortem on William Jennings Bryan; \"The Fringes of Lovely Letters,\" a hilarious delineation of the lower and outer reaches of the literary world; \"Comstockery,\" a devastating account of the anti-obscenity crusader Anthony Comstock (\"A good woman, to him, was simply one who was efficiently policed\"); and \"On Living in Baltimore,\" a celebration of his beloved native city.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Mencken was a man of strong enthusiasms and even stronger antipathies, expressed in a prose style that marshaled all the resources of the American language in a rich blend of comic invention and sarcastic fury. To read \u003ci\u003ePrejudices\u003c\/i\u003e is to embark on an exploration of many curious byways of American culture in a moment of tumultuous and often combative transition. Mencken never shied from combat, and the courage with which he confronted the entrenched truisms and hypocrisies of his time made him a uniquely liberating force in American letter.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eLIBRARY OF AMERICA\u003c\/b\u003e 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.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50328112234769,"sku":"CIN1598530755G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50719872352529,"sku":"CIN1598530755VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1598530755.jpg?v=1751408147"},{"product_id":"new-dictionary-of-quotations-book-h-l-mencken-9780394400792","title":"New Dictionary of Quotations #","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50329389728017,"sku":"CIN0394400798G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0394400798.jpg?v=1751390964"},{"product_id":"mencken-and-sara-book-h-l-mencken-9780070415058","title":"Mencken and Sara","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50343507591441,"sku":"CIN0070415056A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52389389107473,"sku":"CIN0070415056G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":53004804849937,"sku":"CIN0070415056VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0070415056.jpg?v=1751164112"},{"product_id":"second-mencken-chrestomathy-book-h-l-mencken-9780679764076","title":"A Second Mencken Chrestomathy","description":"\u003cp\u003eWith a style that combined biting sarcasm with the language of the free lunch counter, Henry Louis Mencken shook politics and politicians for nearly half a century. Now, fifty years after Mencken's death, the Johns Hopkins University Press announces \u003cb\u003eThe Buncombe Collection\u003c\/b\u003e, newly packaged editions of nine Mencken classics: \u003ci\u003eHappy Days\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHeathen Days\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNewspaper Day\u003c\/i\u003es, \u003ci\u003ePrejudices\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTreatise on the Gods\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOn Politics\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThirty-Five Years of Newspaper Work\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMinority Report\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eA Second Mencken Chrestomathy\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDiscovered among his private papers and edited by columnist Terry Teachout, this collection is full of the iconoclastic common sense that marked Mencken's astonishing career as the premier American social critic of the twentieth century. This chrestomathy (a collection of literary passages) incorporates writings about a variety of subjects: politics, war, music, literature, men and women, lawyers, and the brethren of the cloth.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50354934415633,"sku":"CIN0679764070G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50360061690129,"sku":"CIN0679764070A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":53262277640465,"sku":"CIN0679764070VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0679764070.jpg?v=1750847937"},{"product_id":"antichrist-book-h-l-mencken-9781099390166","title":"The Antichrist","description":"This book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature. In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have worked towards: 1. Type-setting \u0026amp; Reformatting: The complete work has been re-designed via professional layout, formatting and type-setting tools to re-create the same edition with rich typography, graphics, high quality images, and table elements, giving our readers the feel of holding a 'fresh and newly' reprinted and\/or revised edition, as opposed to other scanned \u0026amp; printed (Optical Character Recognition - OCR) reproductions. 2. Correction of imperfections: As the work was re-created from the scratch, therefore, it was vetted to rectify certain conventional norms with regard to typographical mistakes, hyphenations, punctuations, blurred images, missing content\/pages, and\/or other related subject matters, upon our consideration. Every attempt was made to rectify the imperfections related to omitted constructs in the original edition via other references. However, a few of such imperfections which could not be rectified due to intentionalunintentional omission of content in the original edition, were inherited and preserved from the original work to maintain the authenticity and construct, relevant to the work. We believe that this work holds historical, cultural and\/or intellectual importance in the literary works community, therefore despite the oddities, we accounted the work for print as a part of our continuing effort towards preservation of literary work and our contribution towards the development of the society as a whole, driven by our beliefs. We are grateful to our readers for putting their faith in us and accepting our imperfections with regard to preservation of the historical content. HAPY READING","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50379250991377,"sku":"CIN1099390168G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1099390168.jpg?v=1750888201"},{"product_id":"american-language-book-h-l-mencken-9781605206233","title":"The American Language","description":"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 20th century comes via one of its most inveterate watchers, journalist, critic, and editor HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN (1880-1956). In this replica of the 1921 revised and enlarged second edition, Mencken turns his keen ear on: - the general character of American English - loan-words and non-English influences - expletives and forbidden words - American slang - the future of the language - and much, much more. Anyone fascinated by words will find this a thoroughly enthralling look at the most changeable language on the face of the planet.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50394746716433,"sku":"CIN1605206237G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51038666522897,"sku":"NIN9781605206233","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1605206237.jpg?v=1751408028"},{"product_id":"book-of-prefaces-book-h-l-mencken-9781647999872","title":"A Book of Prefaces","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50416949690641,"sku":"GOR013942700","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1647999871.jpg?v=1750960723"},{"product_id":"h-l-mencken-on-american-literature-book-h-l-mencken-9780821414293","title":"H. L. Mencken on American Literature","description":"H. L. Mencken was one of the leading literary, social, and cultural critics of the 1910s, '20s, and '30s. However, very few of his literary reviews have been reprinted in any form prior to their appearance in this volume.  H. L. Mencken on American Literature presents a comprehensive selection of Mencken's reviews of the leading American writers of his time. Manifestly interested in establishing a canon of American literature, he took great pains to vaunt writers such as Theodore Dreiser, Sherwood Anderson, Willa Cather, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sinclair Lewis, and James Branch Cabell as the most accomplished authors of the day.  At the same time, he found deficiencies in the work of such highly regarded figures as Edith Wharton, W. D. Howells, and Ambrose Bierce, placing them only in the second rank of American writers. Mencken also considered it his function to demolish the popular work of now-forgotten best-selling writers, demonstrating in his inimitably scathing manner the degree to which their catering to a mass audience rendered their work hollow and subliterary.  Mencken's reviews are a vast and untapped source for his provocative analyses of the best and the worst in American literature. They are presented here in a scrupulously edited and annotated edition.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":50461030973713,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50461031498001,"sku":"CIN0821414291G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0821414291.jpg?v=1761389751"},{"product_id":"american-language-supplement-1-book-h-l-mencken-9780394400761","title":"American Language Supplement 1","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":50466803581201,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50466804695313,"sku":"CIN0394400763A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/B001OJDOMC.jpg?v=1751134532"},{"product_id":"my-life-as-author-and-editor-book-h-l-mencken-9780679413158","title":"My Life as Author and Editor","description":"H. L. Mencken stipulated that this memoir remain sealed in a vault for thirty-five years after his death. For good reason: \u003ci\u003eMy Life as Author and Editor\u003c\/i\u003e is so telling and uproariously opinionated that it might have provoked a storm of libel suits. As he recounts his career as a critic, essayist, and editor of the ground-breaking magazine \u003ci\u003eSmart Set\u003c\/i\u003e, Mencken brings us face to face with the literary aristocracy of his day, from the dour womanizer Theodore Dreiser to F. Scott Fitzgerald, drowning his gifts in alcohol. Here, too, are the hacks, poseurs, and bohemian crackpots who flocked around them. Most of all, here is Mencken himself, defying censors and Prohibition agents with equal aplomb in an age when literature was a contact sport.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50473198223633,"sku":"CIN0679413154VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51333494145297,"sku":"CIN0679413154G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0679413154.jpg?v=1750944917"},{"product_id":"religious-orgy-in-tennessee-book-h-l-mencken-9781933633176","title":"A Religious Orgy in Tennessee","description":"Collected in print for the first time is Mencken's scathingly honest and fiercely intelligent coverage of the Scopes Monkey Trial, with his perceptive rendering of the courtroom drama, piercing portrayals of key figures Scopes, Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan, and his ferocious take on the fundamentalist culture surrounding the case. It also includes his withering coverage of Bryan's death just days after the trial, as well as a complete transcript of the trial's legendary exchange: Darrow's blistering cross-examination of Bryan.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50479866151185,"sku":"CIN1933633174G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51327341658385,"sku":"CIN1933633174VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1933633174.jpg?v=1751186943"},{"product_id":"american-language-second-edition-book-h-l-mencken-9780982129883","title":"The American Language, Second Edition","description":"A new, completely revised and much extended edition of H. L. Mencken's well-known work first issued in a limited edition as a preliminary inquiry in 1919, this book is the most comprehensive treatise on the American dialect ever attempted. It almost exhausts the subject. It is a genuine magnus opus of over 500 pages, with extensive bibliographies and a word and phrase index of 12,000 entries. Avoiding the typical dullness of such books about language, Mencken created a thoroughly entertaining read. The bulk of the previous research and writing on the American Language, according to Mencken in the Preface to the First Edition, had been dedicated to absurd efforts to prove that no such thing as an American variety of English existed - that the differences I constantly encountered in English and that my English friends encountered in American were chiefly imaginary. THE AMERICAN LANGUAGE was nothing less than a declaration of linguistic independence. No more would America suffer the oppression of literary colonialism. A new day had dawned on American literature. American writers were finally able to take flight from the old tree and to trust for the first time their own dialect, Edmund Wilson observed. Mencken showed the positive value of our own Vulgate heritage.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50491817525521,"sku":"CIN0982129882VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50977696383249,"sku":"GOR009984196","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51010283110673,"sku":"NIN9780982129883","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52097229095185,"sku":"CIN0982129882G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0982129882.jpg?v=1751013437"},{"product_id":"philosophy-of-friedrich-nietzsche-book-h-l-mencken-9781884365317","title":"The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche","description":"Nietzsche left no systematic exposition of his philosophy, and so it remains the subject of intense scholarly dispute and interpretation. Because of Nietzsche's evocative style and often outrageous claims, his philosophy generates strong reactions of passionate love and disgust. The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche by Henry Louis Mencken was the first, and many believe the best book on the subject. Mencken was known for his attention to detail. This book is a must read for anyone who wishes to understand Nietzche and his underlying philosophy.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50586088833297,"sku":"CIN1884365310VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51107931291921,"sku":"CIN1884365310G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53459695534353,"sku":"GOR006431605","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1884365310.jpg?v=1750803079"},{"product_id":"heathen-days-book-h-l-mencken-9780801885327","title":"Heathen Days","description":"With a style that combined biting sarcasm with the \"language of the free lunch counter,\" Henry Louis Mencken shook politics and politicians for nearly half a century. Now, fifty years after Mencken's death, the Johns Hopkins University Press announces The Buncombe Collection, newly packaged editions of nine Mencken classics:  Happy Days,  Heathen Days,  Newspaper Days,  Prejudices,  Treatise on the Gods,  On Politics,  Thirty-Five Years of Newspaper Work,  Minority Report, and  A Second Mencken Chrestomathy.  In the third volume of his autobiography, H. L. Mencken covers a range of subjects, from Hoggie Unglebower, the best dog trainer in Christendom, to his visit to the Holy Land, where he looked for the ruins of Gomorrah.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50663290798353,"sku":"CIN0801885329A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51324675195153,"sku":"CIN0801885329VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51327324061969,"sku":"CIN0801885329G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52414568005905,"sku":"NLS9780801885327","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0801885329.jpg?v=1751107541"},{"product_id":"h-l-mencken-on-religion-book-h-l-mencken-9781573929820","title":"H.L. Mencken on Religion","description":"No one ever argued more forcefully or with such acerbic wit against the foolish aspects of religion as H. L. Mencken (1880-1956). As a journalist, he gained national prominence through his newspaper columns describing the now-famous 1925 Scopes trial, which pitted Fundamentalists against a public school teacher who dared to teach evolution. But both before and after the Scopes trial, Mencken spent much of his career as a columnist and book reviewer lampooning the ignorant piety of gullible Americans.  S. T. Joshi has brought together and organized many of Mencken's writings on religion in this provocative and entertaining collection. The articles here presented demonstrate that Mencken canvassed the entire range of religious phenomena of his time, from evangelists Billy Sunday and Aime Semple McPherson, to Christian Scientists, and theosophists and spiritualists. On a more serious note are his discussions of the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche and the scientific worldview as a rival to religious belief. Also included are poignant autobiographical accounts of Mencken's own upbringing and his core beliefs on religion, ethics, and politics.  If anything was sacred to Mencken, it was the right to speak one's mind freely, and many of his attacks are directed against those true believers who he felt tried to foist their beliefs on others to stifle independent thinking. For everyone who values freethought and sharp intelligence, this collection of articles by America's premier iconoclast is a must.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50663460569361,"sku":"CIN1573929824A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50664827978001,"sku":"CIN1573929824VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51037048602897,"sku":"NIN9781573929820","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51417278710033,"sku":"CIN1573929824G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53007851716881,"sku":"NLS9781573929820","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1573929824.jpg?v=1750959973"},{"product_id":"carnival-of-buncombe-book-h-l-mencken-9780226519777","title":"Carnival of Buncombe","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50760098054417,"sku":"CIN0226519775VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0226519775.jpg?v=1750843643"},{"product_id":"on-politics-book-h-l-mencken-9780801885556","title":"On Politics","description":"With a style that combined biting sarcasm with the \"language of the free lunch counter,\" Henry Louis Mencken shook politics and politicians for nearly half a century. Now, fifty years after Mencken's death, the Johns Hopkins University Press announces The Buncombe Collection, newly packaged editions of nine Mencken classics:  Happy Days,  Heathen Days,  Newspaper Days,  Prejudices,  Treatise on the Gods,  On Politics,  Thirty-Five Years of Newspaper Work,  Minority Report, and  A Second Mencken Chrestomathy.  These seventy political pieces from the 1920s and 1930s are drawn from Mencken's famous Monday columns in the  Baltimore Evening Sun.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51007205474577,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51007207571729,"sku":"NIN9780801885556","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52414582554897,"sku":"NLS9780801885556","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":53016932516113,"sku":"CIN0801885558G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0801885558.jpg?v=1751138715"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/collections\/author-books-by-h-l-mencken.oembed?page=6","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}