| Treatise on the Gods Revised Edition Contributor(s): Mencken, H. L. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0801885361 ISBN-13: 9780801885365 Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press OUR PRICE: $28.50 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 2006 Annotation: 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. Controversial even before it was published in 1930, Treatise on the Gods collects Mencken's scathing commentary on religion. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Journalism - Religion - Literary Criticism | American - General |
| Dewey: 200 |
| LCCN: 96051594 |
| Series: Maryland Paperback Bookshelf |
| Physical Information: 0.74" H x 6" W x 9" (1.07 lbs) 336 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1920's - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
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| Publisher Description: 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. Controversial even before it was published in 1930, Treatise on the Gods collects Mencken's scathing commentary on religion. |
Contributor Bio(s): Mencken, H. L.: - Henry Louis Mencken was born in Baltimore in 1880 and remained a lifelong resident. Opinionated and controversial, he wrote columns for the Baltimore Evening Sun that earned him a national reputation. He died in 1956. |