ISBN: Ostalo
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Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Lako lepe, kao nove rekao bih.

Menken. Tvrdi povez, siveno. Malo redje u ponudi.

It took me nearly a dozen years of rummaging through used bookstores in numerous states to find all six of the original Prejudices volumes. Now The Library of America edition brings these works back to life.”—John Lippman, Los Angeles Times
Overview
H. L. Mencken was the most provocative and influential journalist and cultural critic in twentieth-century America. To read him is to be plunged into an era whose culture wars were easily as ferocious as those of our own day, in the company of a writer of boundless curiosity and vivacious frankness.

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. Irreverent portraits of such major contemporaries as Theodore Roosevelt, William Jennings Bryan, and William Dean Howells contrast with explorations of fascinating byways of American culture in a time of tumultuous and often combative transition.

First Series
Criticism of Criticism of Criticism
The Late Mr. Wells
Arnold Bennett
The Dean
Professor Veblen
The New Poetry Movement
The Heir of Mark Twain
Hermann Sudermann
George Ade
The Butte Bashkirtseff
Six Members of the Institute
The Boudoir Balzac
A Stranger on Parnassus
A Merchant of Mush
The Last of the Victorians
A Bad Novelist
A Broadway Brandes
The Genealogy of Etiquette
The American Magazine
The Ulster Polonius
An Unheeded Law-Giver
The Blushful Mystery
Sex Hygiene
Art and Sex
A Loss to Romance
Sex on the Stage
George Jean Nathan
Portrait of an Immortal Soul
Jack London
Among the Avatars
Three American Immortals
Aristotelean Obsequies
Edgar Allan Poe
Memorial Service

Second Series
The National Letters
Prophets and Their Visions
The Answering Fact
The Ashes of New England
The Ferment Underground
In the Literary Abattoir
Underlying Causes
The Lonesome Artist
The Cultural Background
Under the Campus Pump
The Intolerable Burden
Epilogue
Roosevelt: An Autopsy
The Sahara of the Bozart
The Divine Afflatus
Scientific Examination of a Popular Virtue
Exeunt Omnes
The Allied Arts
On Music-Lovers
Opera
The Music of To-morrow
Tempo di Valse
The Puritan as Artist
The Human Face
The Cerebral Mime
The Cult of Hope
The Dry Millennium
The Holy War
The Lure of Babylon
Cupid and Well-Water
The Triumph of Idealism
Appendix on a Tender Theme
The Nature of Love
The Incomparable Buzzsaw
Women as Spectacles
Woman and the Artist
Martyrs
The Burnt Child
The Supreme Comedy
A Hidden Cause
Bad Workmanship

Third Series
On Being an American
Huneker: A Memory
Footnote on Criticism
Das Kapital
Ad Imaginem Dei Creavit Illum
The Life of Man
The Anthropomorphic Delusion
Meditation on Meditation
Man and His Soul
Coda
Star-Spangled Men
The Poet and His Art
Five Men at Random
Abraham Lincoln
Paul Elmer More
Madison Cawein
Frank Harris
Havelock Ellis
The Nature of Liberty
The Novel
The Forward-Looker
Memorial Service
Education
Types of Men
The Romantic
The Skeptic
The Believer
The Worker
The Physician
The Scientist
The Business Man
The King
The Average Man
The Truth-Seeker
The Pacifist
The Relative
The Friend
The Dismal Science
Matters of State
Le Contrat Social
On Minorities
Reflections on the Drama
Advice to Young Men
To Him That Hath
The Venerable Examined
Duty
Martyrs
The Disabled Veteran
Patriotism
Suite Américaine
Aspiration
Virtue
Eminence

Appendix
from My Life as Author and Editor

Fourth Series
The American Tradition
The Husbandman
High and Ghostly Matters
The Cosmic Secretariat
The Nature of Faith
The Devotee
The Restoration of Beauty
End-Product
Another
Holy Clerks
Justice under Democracy
Reflections on Human Monogamy
The Eternal Farce
Venus at the Domestic Hearth
The Rat-Trap
The Love Chase
Women as Realpolitiker
Footnote for Suffragettes
The Helpmate
The Mime
Cavia Cobaya
The Survivor
The Veteran’s Disaster
Moral Indignation
The Man and His Shadow
The Balance-Sheet
Yearning
The Politician
From a Critic’s Notebook
Progress
The Iconoclast
The Artists’ Model
The Good Citizen as Artist
Definitive Judgments
Totentanz
Meditations in the Methodist Desert
The New Galahad
Optimist vs. Optimist
Caveat for the Defense
Portrait of an Ideal World
Essay in Constructive Criticism
On the Nature of Man
The Animal That Thinks
Veritas Odium Parit
The Eternal Cripple
The Test
National Characters
The Goal
Psychology at 5 A.M.
The Reward
The Altruist
The Man of Honor
Bugaboo
On Government
Toward a Realistic Aesthetic
The Nature of Art
The One-Legged Art
Symbiosis and the Artist
Contributions to the Study of Vulgar Psychology
The Downfall of the Navy
The Mind of the Slave
The Art Eternal
The American Novel
People and Things
The Capital of a Great Republic
Ambassadors of Christ
Bilder aus schöner Zeit
The High Seas
The Shrine of Mnemosyne

Fifth Series
Four Moral Causes
Birth Control
Comstockery
Capital Punishment
War
Four Makers of Tales
Conrad
Hergesheimer
Lardner
Masters
In Memoriam: W.J.B.
The Hills of Zion
Beethoven
Rondo on an Ancient Theme
Protestantism in the Republic
From the Files of a Book Reviewer
Counter-Offensive
Heretics
The Grove of Academe
The Schoolma’m’s Goal
The Heroic Age
The Woes of a 100% American
Yazoo’s Favorite
The Father of Service
A Modern Masterpiece
Sweet Stuff
The Fringes of Lovely Letters
Authorship as a Trade
Authors as Persons
Birth Pangs
Want Ad
Literature and the Schoolma’am
The Critic and His Job
Painting and its Critics
Greenwich Village
Essay in Pedagogy
On Living in Baltimore
The Last New Englander
The Nation
Officers and Gentlemen
Golden Age
Edgar Saltus
Miscellaneous Notes
Martyrs
The Ancients
Jack Ketch as Eugenist
Heroes
An Historic Blunder
On Cynicism
Music and Sin
The Champion
Honor in America
Notes in the Margin of a Treatise on Psychology
Definition
Catechism

Sixth Series
Journalism in America
From the Memoirs of a Subject of the United States
Government by Bounder
Constructive Proposal
The Nature of Government
Freudian Footnote
Bach to Bach!
The Human Mind
On Metaphysicians
On Suicide
On Controversy
On Faith
Clarion Call to Poets
Souvenirs of a Book Reviewer
The Emperor of Wowsers
Thwacks from the Motherland
The Powers of the Air
To the Glory of an Artist
God Help the South!
The Immortal Democrat
Fides Ante Intellectum
Speech Day in the Greisenheim
Professors of English
Five Little Excursions
Brahms
Johann Strauss
Poetry in America
Victualry as a Fine Art
The Libido for the Ugly
Hymn to the Truth
The Pedagogy of Sex
Metropolis
Dives into Quackery
Chiropractic
Criminology
Eugenics
Life Under Bureaucracy
In the Rolling Mills
Ambrose Bierce
The Executive Secretary
Invitation to the Dance
Aubade
Appendix from Moronia
Note on Technic
Interlude in the Socratic Manner
Valentino