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Iconoclast H. L. Mencken was unquestionably the most provocative and influential journalist and cultural critic in twentieth-century America. His volumes of Prejudices, published between 1919 and 1927, were both a scathing yet humorous attack on what Mencken saw as American provincialism and hypocrisy and a resounding defense of the writers and thinkers he thought of as harbingers of a new frankness and maturity. Laced with savage humor and delighting in verbal play, Mencken's prose remains a one-of-a-kind roller-coaster ride through a staggering range of themes: literature and journalism, politics and religion, sex and marriage, food and drink. Notoir Books is a publisher of new old books on topics of esoteric interests, eccentric memoirs, overlooked history, otherworldly stories and distinctive voices. You can visit us at notoirbooks.com Prejudices: First series contains the following essays: 1. CRITICISM OF CRITICISM OF CRITICISM 2. THE LATE MR. WELLS 3. ARNOLD BENNETT 4. THE DEAN 5. PROFESSOR VEBLEN 6. THE NEW POETRY MOVEMENT 7. THE HEIR OF MARK TWAIN 8. HERMANN SUDERMANN 9. GEORGE ADE 10. THE BUTTE BASHKIRTSEFF 11. 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 12. THE GENEALOGY OF ETIQUETTE 13. THE AMERICAN MAGAZINE 14. THE ULSTER POLONIUS 15. AN UNHEEDED LAW-GIVER 16. THE BLUSHFUL MYSTERY Sex Hygiene Art and Sex A Loss to Romance Sex on the Stage 17. GEORGE JEAN NATHAN 18. PORTRAIT OF AN IMMORTAL SOUL 19. JACK LONDON 20. AMONG THE AVATARS 21. THREE AMERICAN IMMORTALS Aristotelean Obsequies Edgar Allan Poe Memorial Service

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