When henry was three, his family moved into a new home at 1524 hollins street facing union square park in the union square neighborhood of old west baltimore. During the 1920s, few literary events were so eagerly awaited in the united states as the appearance of a new volume of h. Download the free pdf converter and create pdf files from any application with pdf creator. Create and merge pdfs with pdfcreator and let pdf architect help you edit pdfs, insert images to pdfs, extract text from images and more. Hl mencken s the american language is a creature of its time, a flexing of american cultural muscle, but. 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. I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey.
Henry louis, 18801956 online books about this author are available, as is a wikipedia article mencken, h. Mencken gives the impression of an able mind so harried and irritated by the philistinism of american life that it has not been able to attain its full power. These more carefully workedover critical essays are, on the whole, less interesting and provocative than the irresponsible comment he gives us in his magazine. Pdfcreator download for free, download pdf printer, pdf. Publication date 1919 topics american literature, american essays publisher new york, knopf collection. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach. Mencken was born in baltimore, maryland, on september 12, 1880. The antichrist friedrich wilhelm nietzsche 2141 downloads. For better or worse, i am a child of the plains, and so my first experience with h. Best of all, pdf creator is absolutely free for anyone to use.
He was the son of anna margaret abhau and august mencken sr. A contribution toward the interpretation of the national mind new york. Propped up by postwar wealth and crackpot ideas like prohibition and the comstock laws, the. The famous american journalists selections from his writings reflect his witty interpretations of humanity, government, and a variety of other topics. He was of german ancestry and spoke german in his childhood. Knopf, 1920, also by george jean nathan gutenberg text and page images. Pdfcreator allows you to convert files to pdf, merge and rearrange pdf files, create digital signatures and more. The following year, they published the correspondence in. You may copy it, give it away or reuse it under the terms of the project gutenberg license included with this ebook or online at. Mencken stays home in the 1920s because he knew that american culture had raised mark twains gilded age to a higher order.