H. L. Mencken published his fourth (and final) edition of his landmark work in April 1936. While it is a treatise on the development of American-English, it is also fascinating and exhibits Mencken's well-known wit and humor.
We the Living is the first novel published by the Russian-American novelist Ayn Rand. First published in 1936, it is a story of life in post-revolutionary Russia. Rand observes in the foreword to this book that We the Living was the closest she would ever come to writing an autobiography. Her working title for the novel had been Airtight. We the Living was first completed in 1934, but, despite support from H.L. Mencken, who deemed it "a really excellent piece of work," it was rejected by several publishers until 1936.
Hugo Award Winner 2006 - In Willis's charming tale of the paranormal, Rob, a professional skeptic, and Kildy, his too-good-to-be-true ex-actress sidekick, try to debunk a psychic channeler, who just might be hosting the spirit of legendary skeptic H.L. Mencken. Willis fans will find the funny, snappy narrative familiar, from the "how can you not know I'm in love with you" relationship to the quick-witted social commentary.
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Peter Mayle surveys his territory from a new vantage point: the all-fours perspective of his dog Boy – a dog whose personality is made up of equal parts Boswell and Dr Johnson, Mencken and A. A. Milne.
Enhanced by 59 splendidly whimsical drawings by Edward Koren.
Over 1,000 barbed and brilliant definitions by the 19th-century journalist and satirist often called “the American Swift.” Congratulations are “the civility of envy.” A coward is “one who in an emergency thinks with his legs.” A historian is a “broad-gauge gossip,” more. H. L. Mencken called these “some of the most gorgeous witticisms in the English language.
