Name: The Free Lance, May-August 1911: Edited and Annotated by s. T. Joshi (Collected Essays and Journalism of h. L. Mencken) (en Inglés)
Price: 95.14 PEN
Availability: InStock
Author: H. L. Mencken
ISBN: 9781673712292

portada The Free Lance, May-August 1911: Edited and Annotated by s. T. Joshi (Collected Essays and Journalism of h. L. Mencken) (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Independently Published

Autor

H. L. Mencken

Año

2019

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

317

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN13

9781673712292

Categorías

Estados unidos de américa
Antologías

The Free Lance, May-August 1911: Edited and Annotated by s. T. Joshi (Collected Essays and Journalism of h. L. Mencken) (en Inglés)

H. L. Mencken (Autor) · Independently Published · Tapa Blanda

Libro Nuevo

S/ 95,14

S/ 190,28

Ahorras: S/ 95,14

50% descuento

Envío normal

Origen: Estados Unidos (Costos de importación incluídos en el precio)

Se enviará desde nuestra bodega entre el Lunes 24 de Junio y el Lunes 08 de Julio.

Lo recibirás en cualquier lugar de Perú entre 2 y 5 días hábiles luego del envío.

Reseña del libro "The Free Lance, May-August 1911: Edited and Annotated by s. T. Joshi (Collected Essays and Journalism of h. L. Mencken) (en Inglés)"

On May 8, 1911, H. L. Mencken began a column in the Baltimore Evening Sun entitled “The World in Review.” The next day he retitled it “The Free Lance”—and continued writing the column six days a week for the next four and a half years. This enormous body of work, totalling about 1200 columns and amounting to 1.5 million words, is an incredibly rich storehouse of Mencken’s opinions on a wide array of topics. In some columns he addresses serious issues: the distressing prevalence of typhoid in the larger American cities, including Baltimore; the pestiferious influence of the Anti-Saloon League in promoting prohibition of alcoholic beverages; and all manner of political malfeasance both locally and nationally. But in most of his columns he displays his pungent satirical wit, lampooning poetasters, self-righteous moralists, and political and literary hacks of every description. In several columns Mencken begins outlining his views of the “American language,” the distinctive slang that Americans have adopted as a departure from formal English; Mencken later wrote a landmark treatise on the subject. Throughout these columns, H. L. Mencken displays the perspicacity and penchant for humor and satire that made him the greatest journalist of his day.