Damn! A Book of Calumny
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About This Book
This volume collects seven main works by Henry Louis Mencken,American journalist, satirist, cultural critic and scholar of American English, known as the "Sage of Baltimore". He is regarded as one of the most influential American writers and prose stylists of the first half of the twentieth century. The works included are: The American Credo The American Language The Philosophy Of Friedrich Nietzsche A Book Of Burlesques A Book Of Prefaces Damn! A Book Of Calumny In Defense Of Women
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- DAMN!
- A BOOK OF CALUMNY
- CONTENTS
- DAMN! A BOOK OF CALUMNY
- I.
- PATER PATRIÆ
- II
- THE REWARD OF THE ARTIST
- III
- THE HEROIC CONSIDERED
- IV
- THE BURDEN OF HUMOR
- V
- THE SAVING GRACE
- VI
- MORAL INDIGNATION
- VII
- STABLE-NAMES
- VIII
- THE JEWS
- IX
- THE COMSTOCKIAN PREMISS
- X
- THE LABIAL INFAMY
- XI
- A TRUE ASCETIC
- XII
- ON LYING
- XIII
- HISTORY
- XIV
- THE CURSE OF CIVILIZATION
- XV
- EUGENICS
- XVI
- THE JOCOSE GODS
- XVII
- WAR
- XVIII
- MORALIST AND ARTIST
- XIX
- ACTORS
- XX
- THE CROWD
- XXI
- AN AMERICAN PHILOSOPHER
- XXII
- CLUBS
- XXIII
- FIDELIS AD URNUM
- XXIV
- A THEOLOGICAL MYSTERY
- XXV
- THE TEST OF TRUTH
- XXVI
- LITERARY INDECENCIES
- XXVII
- VIRTUOUS VANDALISM
- XXVIII
- A FOOTNOTE ON THE DUEL OF SEX
- XXIX
- ALCOHOL
- XXX
- THOUGHTS ON THE VOLUPTUOUS
- XXXI
- THE HOLY ESTATE
- XXXII
- DICHTUNG UND WAHRHEIT
- XXXIII
- WILD SHOTS
- XXXIV
- BEETHOVEN
- XXXV
- THE TONE ART
- XXXVI
- ZOOS
- XXXVII
- ON HEARING MOZART
- XXXVIII
- THE ROAD TO DOUBT
- XXXIX
- A NEW USE FOR CHURCHES
- XL
- THE ROOT OF RELIGION
- XLI
- FREE WILL
- XLII
- QUID EST VERITAS?
- XLIII
- THE DOUBTER'S REWARD
- XLIV
- BEFORE THE ALTAR
- XLV
- THE MASK
- XLVI
- PIA VENEZIANI, POI CRISTIANI
- XLVII
- OFF AGAIN, ON AGAIN
- XLVIII
- THEOLOGY
- XLIX
- EXEMPLI GRATIA
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