Böcker av H. L. Mencken

Controversial even before it was published in 1930, Treatise on the Gods collects Mencken's scathing commentary on religion.

These thirty-five essays-each a stick of dynamite with a burning fuse-have been selected from six volumes originally published between 1919 and 1927.

In the second volume of his autobiography, Mencken recalls his years as a young reporter.

Mencken covers a range of subjects, from Hoggie Unglebower, the best dog trainer in Christendom, to his visit to the Holy Land, where he looked for the ruins of Gomorrah.

Here Mencken recalls memories of a safe and happy boyhood in the Baltimore of the 1880s.

H. L. Mencken was one of the leading literary, social, and cultural critics of the 1910s, '20s, and '30s. However, very few of his literary reviews have been reprinted in any form prior to their appearance in this volume.H.