title: A Book of Burlesques
author:  H.L. Mencken 
description: Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis). A Book of Burlesques. Third Printing. New York, Published at the Borzoi by Alfred Knopf, 1928. 10.5 cm x 17 cm. 239 pages. Some written music in black and white. Original illustrated hardcover. Very good condition with only very minor signs of external wear. From the reference library of Hans Christian Andersen - Translator Erik Haugaard. With his Exlibris to the pastedown. Henry Louis Mencken (September 12, 1880  January 29, 1956) was an 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. He commented widely on the social scene, literature, music, prominent politicians and contemporary movements. His satirical reporting on the Scopes trial, which he dubbed the Monkey Trial, also gained him attention. As a scholar, Mencken is known for The American Language, a multi-volume study of how the English language is spoken in the United States. As an admirer of the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, he was a detractor of religion, populism and representative democracy, which he believed to be a system in which inferior men dominated their superiors. Mencken was a supporter of scientific progress, skeptical of economic theories and critical of osteopathic and chiropractic medicine. Mencken opposed American entry into World War I and World War II. His diary indicates that he was a racist and anti-semite, and privately used coarse language and slurs to describe various ethnic and racial groups (though he believed it was in poor taste to use such slurs publicly). Mencken also at times seemed to show a genuine enthusiasm for militarism, though never in its American form. War is a good thing, he once wrote, because it is honest, it admits the central fact of human nature A nation too long at peace becom..
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  Title: A Book of Burlesque  
  Sketches of English Stage Travestie and Parody  
    
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