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Title: Prejudices: A Selection (Maryland Paperback Bookshelf) by H. L. Mencken, James T. Farrell ISBN: 0-8018-5341-9 Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr Pub. Date: April, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: If it weren't for Mencken, I'd go nuts
Comment: Mencken helps to keeps me sane. When I can no longer stomach euphemisms, political correctness or the praise of mediocrity, along comes Harry to slay the idleheaded icons of modern American society. He accomplishes the task as effortlessly today as he did in the 1920s. It shows he was either ahead of his time, or things never really change. While those not familiar with Mencken might be unacquainted with some of those harpooned by him, a little research and reading will clear up the unfamiliarity. As for Mencken's style, vocabulary and content, one word describes them: priceless. Prejudices and Mencken's Chrestomathy should be required reading in every school across the nation. This book, like most of his writings, is not for the weak, for those easily offended or those who measure all things with the modern yardstick of self-righteous indignation. These people will be screaming half way into the first page. Keep your generals, kings and the like. If there were one person from the past I could sit with over a schooner of beer it would be the Sage of Baltimore.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Classic!
Comment: I have recently finished "Prejudices," by H.L. Mencken. I knew little of the author, save that which I had gleaned by reading one of his other books ("A Discourse on the Gods," I think it was.) But, after coming away from the Satanic wag's essays, I am inclined to accord him a place in the pantheon right next to Nietzsche, Mark Twain and Socrates. An evil, little man! Acerbic, brilliant, roaringly funny! History buffs will appreciate the insight these essays will give on the values and mores of the Early 20th Century and the light his intelligence throws upon the world around him--and around us today. Because, as it turns out, the greatest accomplishment of this witty court jester, this slayer of phonies and defender of common sense is his talent for uncovering atemporal, universal principles which are as true today as they were a hundred years ago . . . or a thousand! A brilliant work from a glowing mind, the secret thrill in reading it is seeing how little everything has changed and what a short distance we've really come since the Age of Troglodytes.
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Title: Minority Report: H.L. Mencken's Notebooks (Maryland Paperback Bookshelf) by H. L. Mencken ISBN: 0801856582 Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr Pub. Date: July, 1997 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Mencken Chrestomathy by H.L. Mencken ISBN: 0394752090 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 12 April, 1982 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: H.L. Mencken's Smart Set Criticism by H. L. Mencken, William H. Nolte ISBN: 0895262312 Publisher: Gateway Editions Pub. Date: 15 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: On Politics: A Carnival of Buncombe (Maryland Paperback Bookshelf) by H. L. Mencken, Malcolm Moos ISBN: 0801853427 Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr Pub. Date: August, 1996 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Treatise on the Gods (Maryland Paperback Bookshelf) by H. L. Mencken ISBN: 080185654X Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr Pub. Date: July, 1997 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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