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Descrizione libro Hardcover. Condizione: New. Condizione sovraccoperta: New. 1st Edition. CLASSIC: ICONOCLASTIC: BRILLIANT: WITTY: ENTERTAINING: ENLIGHTENING: NEW LOA First Edition hardcover (Orig. 2010) Second Printing, NEW mylar-protected gloss-laminated LOA jacket w/ sharp NEW edges & corners showing orig. $35.00 pub. price bottom-right inside-front flyleaf, NEW sand-tan rayon-weave Brillianta fabric-over-boards cover w/ sharp NEW edges & corners, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior MARRED Only by small red dot at base of spine, NEW Smyth-sewn binding w/ tight signatures & bronze silk ribbon page-marker bound from top & w/ siilk-finish white-tan-checked linen bands at spine-caps, IMPECCABLE white-on-rich-tan LOA-patterned front & back card-stock end-papers, PRISTINE interior handsomely printed in 10-pt. Linotron Galliard on SUPERB silk-finish acid-free lightweight-opaque archival paper * Illustrated with photographs from Mencken?s archives * 5.12" x 8.12" x 1.26", 0.66 kg, xii+610 (622) pp * CONTENTS: Contents (ix) First Series (1) Second Series (151) Third Series (299) Appendix (491) Chronology (519) Note on the Texts (531) Notes (534) Index (592) * ABOUT THE BOOK: H.L. Mencken was unquestionably the most provocative & influential journalist & cultural critic in 20th-century America. The 6 volumes of Prejudices, published between 1919 & 1927, were both a slashing attack on what Mencken saw as American provincialism & hypocrisy & a resounding defense of the writers & thinkers he thought of as harbingers of a new frankness & maturity. Laced w/ savage humor & delighting in verbal play, Mencken's prose remains a one-of-a-kind roller-coaster ride through a staggering range of themes: literature & journalism, politics & religion, sex & marriage, food & drink. In this and its companion volume, LOA presents all 6 series of Prejudices in their original form. The first 3 series include some of his most famous writing, including "The Sahara of the Bozart," an attack on Southern culture so unbridled as to earn him widespread criticism from politicians & the press; "The National Letters," a lively & free-spoken survey of writing in America; "The Dry Millennium," an analysis of the multiple absurdities of Prohibition; "Exeunt Omnes," an unblinking & deromanticized contemplation of death; & "On Being an American," a humorous celebration of the political & cultural panorama that he saw as "incomparably the greatest show on earth." Here are his harsh summing-up of Theodore Roosevelt's career ("he didn?t believe in democracy; he believed simply in government") & his sympathetic portraits of literary friends like James Huneker & George Jean Nathan. Mencken's account of the original reception of Prejudices, from his memoir My Life as Editor & Author, is included as an appendix. Edmund Wilson wrote: "Mencken?s mind . . . has all the courage in the world in a country where courage is rare." That courage may sometimes have been coupled w/ an inflexible stubbornness that led him into positions hard to defend. But to succeeding generations of writers & readers, Mencken was the figure who had risked charges of heresy & sedition & almost single-handedly brought America into a new cultural era. 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 critic of vast curiosity & vivacious frankness. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN (1880-1956), the "Sage of Baltimore," was the most provocative & influential journalist & cultural critic in 20th-century America. * THE LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an award-winning, nonprofit program dedicated to publishing America's best & most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts. Hailed as "the most important book-publishing project in the nation's history" (Newsweek), this acclaimed series is restoring America's literary heritage in "the finest-looking, longest-lasting edition ever made" (New Republic). * SHIPPING: FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL. Codice articolo 010341
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