A Second Mencken Chrestomathy: A New Selection from the Writings of America's Legendary Editor, Critic, and WitJHU Press, 2006 M11 2 - 528 páginas 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. 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. Discovered 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. |
Contenido
Americana | 3 |
The Yokel | 9 |
The Metaphysic of Rotary | 17 |
Bring On the Clowns | 29 |
Liberty and Democracy | 35 |
Reflections on Government | 43 |
The Last Ditch | 51 |
The Next Round | 56 |
Arnold Bennett | 251 |
Somerset Maugham | 259 |
H Lawrence | 265 |
James Branch Cabell | 271 |
Dreiser as Philosopher | 278 |
Mrs Wharton | 284 |
Playwrights and Poets | 290 |
Edgar Lee Masters | 296 |
Memorials of Dishonor | 62 |
Cops and Their | 68 |
One Size Fits | 74 |
The Arbuckle Case | 81 |
Over the Side | 89 |
The Root of Religion | 96 |
The Believing Mind | 104 |
Shock Troops | 110 |
The Great Illusion | 116 |
At the Mercy of the Mob | 125 |
Men and Women | 131 |
108 | 137 |
The Burnt Child | 143 |
Cast a Cold Eye | 150 |
Thomas Henry Huxley | 156 |
Elegy | 163 |
The Professions | 168 |
The Rewards of Virtue | 175 |
Metropolis | 186 |
The Utopia of Tolerance | 192 |
Interlude in the Socratic Manner | 198 |
Boston | 206 |
Transcendentalism | 213 |
The Novel | 219 |
The Ultimate Realists | 225 |
Jane Austen | 231 |
The Father of Them | 238 |
H G Wells | 244 |
Cassandras Lament | 303 |
A Novel a | 310 |
Unfinished Business | 314 |
སམྨེཝསྶ | 325 |
The Public Prints | 355 |
III | 358 |
The Baltimore Sunpaper | 364 |
The MuckRakers | 371 |
Katzenjammer | 378 |
The Lower Depths | 386 |
Prima Facie | 392 |
The Tone Art | 394 |
Dvořák | 401 |
Debussy and Wagner | 407 |
Night Club | 415 |
Hot Dogs | 421 |
A Texas Schoolmaam | 432 |
The Incomparable Bok | 439 |
One Who Will Be Missed | 446 |
Ironies | 453 |
Interlude Sentimentale | 459 |
The Bugaboo | 463 |
Credos | 470 |
Further Exposition | 478 |
Categorical Imperatives | 485 |
Coda | 491 |