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H.L. Mencken

Birth date: September 12, 1880

Died: January 29, 1956

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Literature & Fiction, Philosophy, Politics

H.L. Mencken's Books

The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever - John Updike, George Eliot, John Stuart Mill, Thomas Hobbes, Richard Dawkins, Daniel C. Dennett, Carl Sagan, Mark Twain, H.L. Mencken, Christopher Hitchens, Ian McEwan, Salman Rushdie, Joseph Conrad, Ibn Warraq, Martin Gardner, Karl Marx, Bertrand Russell, A.C. Grayling, Pe

A Mencken Chrestomathy: His Own Selection of His Choicest Writing - H.L. Mencken

The 50 Funniest American Writers: According to Andy Borowitz - Bernie Mac, Dorothy Parker, Langston Hughes, George Saunders, H.L. Mencken, David Rakoff, Susan Orlean, Terry Southern, Jean Shepherd, O. Henry, Wanda Sykes, Hunter S. Thompson, Nora Ephron, Sinclair Lewis, E.B. White, Henry Beard, Bruce Jay Friedman, Roy Blount Jr., James

Fifty Great Short Stories - Edith Wharton, E.M. Forster, Robert Louis Stevenson, Henry James, John Steinbeck, W. Somerset Maugham, Dorothy Parker, Francis Steegmuller, Guy de Maupassant, Ernest Hemingway, H.G. Wells, James Joyce, H.L. Mencken, Flannery O'Connor, Katherine Mansfield, Joseph Conrad,

The Vintage Mencken - H.L. Mencken, Alistair Cooke

My Life As Author And Editor - H.L. Mencken

H.L. Mencken on Religion - H.L. Mencken, S.T. Joshi

The Bathtub Hoax, and Other Blasts and Bravos from the Chicago Tribune - H.L. Mencken, Robert Mchugh

Prejudices: The Complete Series - H.L. Mencken, Marion Elizabeth Rodgers

The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche - H.L. Mencken

Prejudices Second Series - H L Mencken

Prejudices: Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Series (Library of America #207) - H.L. Mencken, Marion Elizabeth Rodgers

Three Early Works (Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading): A Book of Prefaces, Damn! a Book of Calumny, and the American Credo - H.L. Mencken, Richard Schrader

H.L. Mencken's Smart Set Criticism - H.L. Mencken, William Henry Nolte

Fante/Mencken: John Fante and H.L. Mencken: A Personal Correspondence, 1930-1952 - John Fante, H.L. Mencken

H. L. Mencken: The Days Trilogy, Expanded Edition: (Library of America #257) - H.L. Mencken, Marion Elizabeth Rodgers

"Ich Kuss Die Hand": The Letters of H. L. Mencken To Gretchen Hood - H.L. Mencken, Peter Dowell

Thirty-five Years of Newspaper Work: A Memoir by H. L. Mencken - H.L. Mencken, Bradford Jacobs, Vincent Fitzpatrick

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The Antichrist: Translated and Introduced by H. L. Mencken - H.L. Mencken, Friedrich Nietzsche

The Anti Christ - Friedrich Nietzsche, H.L. Mencken

Contos Comédia Social - W. Somerset Maugham, Dorothy Parker, H.L. Mencken, Ana Maria Chaves, James Thurber, Ana Lopes, Amanda Franco

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Ernesto Rafael Santana's Book Blog rated it

8 years ago

text The Anti-Christ

Primera vez que leo a Friedrich Nietzsche. Un poco pesado, pero me gustó; en muchas cosas estoy de acuerdo con sus ideas, en otras no. jajaja Lo recomiendo.

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Ecletic Reader rated it

11 years ago

text The Anti-Christ

Very interesting. Many of these arguments were intuitive to me, though I had never made the specific connections before. I'll definitely need at least one more read through in order to fully synthesize the entirety of the text. The style used in Nietzsche's writing is always difficult for me to read...

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Bettie's Books rated it

11 years ago

text The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever

bookshelves: essays, philosophy, nonfiction, published-2007, winter-20132014, tbr-busting-2014, sciences, fraudio Read from January 03 to 05, 2014 The Portable Atheist read by Nicolas Ballanthology of atheist writing through the ages.1. Introduction by Christopher Hitchens2. Lucretius: from the N...

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Boston Bibliophile rated it

12 years ago

text Notes on Democracy

http://www.bostonbibliophile.com/2009/02/review-notes-on-democracy-by-hl-mencken.html

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warren rated it

12 years ago

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This book was actually a bit dull for me, although it did introduce me to the word "huggermugger".So I'll be using that one a bit.

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