Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extre...
Democracy came into the Western World to the tune of sweet, soft music. There was, at the start, ...
'I am quite convinced that all religions, at bottom, are prettymuch alike. On the surface they ...
In the fall of 1948 H. L. Mencken, then at the top of his unmatchable form (he had spoken at a me...
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Perhaps the first truly important book about the divergence of American English from its British ...
'The native American Voltaire, the enemy of all puritans, the heretic in the Sunday school, the o...
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H. L. Mencken stipulated that this memoir remain sealed in a vault for thirty-five years after hi...
The DEFINITIVE EDITION OF The American Language was published in 1936. Since then it has been rec...
The period covered is that of his professional nonage-from his entry into journalism as a reporte...