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Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956), was an American journalist, essayist, magazine editor, satirist, and acerbic critic of American life and culture. Mencken, known as the "Sage of Baltimore", is regarded as one of the most influential American writers and prose stylists of the first half of the... read more
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- Noah Webster
- Thornton
- Lounsbury
- I. E.
- Lardner
- Bartlett
- Johnson
- Richard Grant White
- Pickering
- Fowler
- Thomas Jefferson
- Smith
- Jackson
- Franklin
- Schele De Vere
- Brander Matthews
- Charles
- Muller
- Miller
- Williams
- Mark Twain
- Sayce
- Chaucer
- Gould
- Taylor
- Cooper
- Bryant
- Dr. Charters
- James
- Levy
- Howells
- Lowell
- Brown
- Witherspoon
Setting & Locations edit
- New England
- America
- New York
- United States
- London
- Boston
- Washington
- Chicago
- Philadelphia
- Pennsylvania
- Ireland
- Cambridge
- France
- Canada
- Baltimore
- Germany
- Virginia
- Arkansas
- Illinois
- Mississippi
- Worcester
- Ohio
- Massachusetts
- Maryland
- Paris
- Atlantic
- California
- Missouri
- Maine
- Europe
- Iowa
- Connecticut
- Pittsburgh
- Hobson-jobson
- Southwest
- Louisiana
First Sentence edit
The first American colonist had perforce to invent Americanisms, if only to describe the unfamiliar landscape and weather, flora and fauna confronting them.
Series & Lists edit
This is book 9 of 39 in Modern Library's 100 Best Nonfiction Books: The Board's List. (authoritative list)
Authors & Contributors edit
- H. L. Mencken (Author)
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- Dewey: 420.973
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