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A Mencken Chrestomathy: His Own Selection of His Choicest Writing
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A Mencken Chrestomathy: His Own Selection of His Choicest Writing Trade paperback - 1982

by H.L. Mencken

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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, April 1982. Trade Paperback. Used - very good.
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  • Title A Mencken Chrestomathy: His Own Selection of His Choicest Writing
  • Author H.L. Mencken
  • Binding Trade Paperback
  • Edition 1st Vintage Book
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 627
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A.
  • Date April 1982
  • Features Annotated
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 60398
  • ISBN 9780394752099 / 0394752090
  • Weight 1.1 lbs (0.50 kg)
  • Dimensions 8 x 5.2 x 1.2 in (20.32 x 13.21 x 3.05 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Mencken, H. L, Newspapers - Sections, columns, etc
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 81052593
  • Dewey Decimal Code 818.520

Summary

H. L. Mencken's Chrestomathy is Mencken's collection of what he considered his best writing.

From the rear cover

In my title I revive the word chrestomathy in its true sense of 'a collection of choice passages from an author or authors, ' and ignore the late edition of 'especially one complied to assist in the acquirement of a language.' In the latter significance the term is often used by linguists, and some of the chrestomathies issued by them in recent years.

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  • Booklist, 06/01/2007, Page 30

About the author

Henry L. Mencken was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1880 and died there in 1956. He began his long career as a journalist, critic, and philologist on the Baltimore Morning Herald in 1899. In 1906 he joined the staff of the Baltimore Sun, thus beginning an association which lasted until a few years before his death. He was co-editor of the Smart Set with George Jean Nathan from 1908 to 1923, and with Nathan he founded The American Mercury, of which he was sole editor from 1925 to 1933. He was the author of many books, most notably The American Language, Prejudices, Happy Days, Newspaper Days, Heathen Days, and Minority Report.

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