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Product Description: The perfect book for the 2012 elections. . . and beyond![Democracy] [i]is based on propositions that are palpably not true-and what is not true, as everyone knows, is always immensely more fascinating and satisfying to the vast majority of men than what is true...read more
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9781443726375 | Read Books, November 30, 2008, cover price $40.45 | also contains Notes on Democracy | About this edition: NOTES ON DEMOCRACY by H.

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9780977378838 | New edition (Midpoint Trade Books Inc, April 17, 2012), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: The perfect book for the 2012 elections.
9780977378814 | New edition (Midpoint Trade Books Inc, October 1, 2008), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: [Democracy] is, perhaps, the most charming form of government ever devised by man.

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Product Description: [This is the MP3CD audiobook format in vinyl case.] Originally published in 1922, this book considers topics that remain of vital interest to today's readers, including monogamy and polygamy, prostitution, the double standard, sexual harassment, and declining birth and marriage rates...read more
By H. L. Mencken and Fred Williams (narrator)
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9781441785183 | Mp3 una edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, April 20, 2011), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: [This is the MP3CD audiobook format in vinyl case.
9781441785169 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, April 20, 2011), cover price $55.00 | About this edition: [This is the Audiobook CD Library Edition in vinyl case.

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9780786117918 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, January 1, 2000), cover price $44.95 | About this edition: [This is the Audiobook Cassette Library Edition in vinyl case.

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Product Description: A refute of dogmatic Christianity, said best in his own words: "An action demanded by the instinct of life is proven correct by the pleasure that accompanies it; yet Christian dogma considers pleasure an objection. What could destroy us more quickly than working, thinking, and feeling without any inner necessity, without any deeply personal choice, without pleasure as an automaton of duty?" Nietzsche challenges the ethical-moral value system that the West has so deeply inherited from the belief and practice of Christianity, maintaining that the Christian emphasis on sympathy and pity multiplies the experience of suffering, which has weakened, rather than strengthened its followers...read more
By H. L. Mencken (trans)
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9781453888872 | Createspace, October 17, 2010, cover price $6.95 | also contains The Anti-Christ | About this edition: A refute of dogmatic Christianity, said best in his own words: "An action demanded by the instinct of life is proven correct by the pleasure that accompanies it; yet Christian dogma considers pleasure an objection.
9781596056817 | Cosimo Inc, December 31, 2005, cover price $5.99 | About this edition: The Christian concept of a god-the god as the patron of the sick, the god as a spinner of cobwebs, the god as a spirit-is one of the most corrupt concepts that has ever been set up in the world.
9781884365201 | See Sharp Pr, August 1, 1999, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: This is Nietzsche's last book and a fitting capstone to his career.

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9781598530742 | Library of America, September 2, 2010, cover price $35.00

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Product Description: Few writers roiled the American cultural scene like Henry Louis Mencken. Pathbreaking journalist, trenchant social observer, and unbridled humorist, Mencken was the most provocative and influential cultural critic of the last century...read more
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9781598530766 | Library of America, September 2, 2010, cover price $70.00 | About this edition: Few writers roiled the American cultural scene like Henry Louis Mencken.

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9781598530759 | Library of America, September 2, 2010, cover price $35.00

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Product Description: Perhaps the first truly important book about the divergence of American English from its British roots, this survey of the language as it was spoken-and as it was changing-at the beginning of the 20th century comes via one of its most inveterate watchers, journalist, critic, and editor HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN (1880-1956)...read more
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9781616402594 | Cosimo Inc, July 30, 2010, cover price $37.99 | About this edition: Perhaps the first truly important book about the divergence of American English from its British roots, this survey of the language as it was spoken-and as it was changing-at the beginning of the 20th century comes via one of its most inveterate watchers, journalist, critic, and editor HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN (1880-1956).

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Product Description: Liberty, like equality, is a word that is more often used than understood. Perfect and absolute liberty is as incompatible with the existence of society, as equality of condition. It is impracticable even in a state of nature, since without the protection of the law, the strong would oppress and enslave the weak...read more
By H. L. Mencken (introduced by)
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9781412811033 | Large print edition (Transaction Pub Large Print, April 1, 2010), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Liberty, like equality, is a word that is more often used than understood.

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Product Description: Illustrated by Thomas H. Benton
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9781434697882 | Lightning Source Inc, January 11, 2008, cover price $18.75 | About this edition: Illustrated by Thomas H.
9781434697899 | Large print edition (Lightning Source Inc, January 11, 2008), cover price $19.75 | About this edition: Illustrated by Thomas H.
9781428636262 | Kessinger Pub Co, July 31, 2006, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: With Decorations By Thomas H.

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9781435388383 | Indypublish.Com, January 31, 2008, cover price $32.99
9780548134306 | Kessinger Pub Co, July 30, 2007, cover price $41.95 | About this edition: This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.

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9781433088124 | Intl Business Pubns USA, March 3, 2009, cover price $59.95 | About this edition: This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.
9781434687951 | Large print edition (Lightning Source Inc, January 31, 2008), cover price $21.75 | About this edition: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality.
9781434687944 | Lightning Source Inc, January 31, 2008, cover price $19.75 | About this edition: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality.
9781435388208 | Indypublish.Com, January 31, 2008, cover price $25.99
9781428645332 | Kessinger Pub Co, July 31, 2006, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.

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Product Description: This book an EXACT reproduction of the original book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc...read more
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9781110562848 | Lightning Source Inc, June 30, 2009, cover price $30.99 | About this edition: This book an EXACT reproduction of the original book published before 1923.

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9781110562831 | Lightning Source Inc, June 30, 2009, cover price $26.75 | About this edition: This book an EXACT reproduction of the original book published before 1923.
9781434696755 | Large print edition (Lightning Source Inc, March 30, 2008), cover price $20.75 | About this edition: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality.
9781434696748 | Lightning Source Inc, March 30, 2008, cover price $19.75 | About this edition: A contribution toward the interpretation of the national mind.

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9781110382163 | Lightning Source Inc, May 15, 2009, cover price $30.99
9781428072183 | Indypublish.Com, February 28, 2007, cover price $32.99
9781432610814 | Kessinger Pub Co, April 30, 2005, cover price $43.95 | About this edition: 1917.
9780781266123 | Reprint edition (Reprint Services Corp, December 1, 1993), cover price $79.00 | About this edition: Under all his stories there ebbs and flows a kind of tempered melancholy a sense of seeking and not finding.

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9781433088797 | Intl Business Pubns USA, March 3, 2009, cover price $59.95 | About this edition: Under all his stories there ebbs and flows a kind of tempered melancholy a sense of seeking and not finding.
9781426496608 | Lightning Source Inc, October 31, 2007, cover price $20.75 | About this edition: Under all his stories there ebbs and flows a kind of tempered melancholy a sense of seeking and not finding.
9781426481338 | Large print edition (Lightning Source Inc, October 31, 2007), cover price $22.75 | About this edition: Under all his stories there ebbs and flows a kind of tempered melancholy a sense of seeking and not finding.
9781428072176 | Indypublish.Com, February 28, 2007, cover price $26.99
9781557429858 | Wildside Pr, October 18, 2006, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Four of H.
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Product Description: In Defense of Women might well be considered a libertarian compliment to George Bernard Shaw's Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism. As with Shaw's book this volume is an admixture of feminism tinged with masculine concern for the survival of marriage and love in a twentieth century already witness to rapid change and the social breakdown of conventions that accompany such changes...read more
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9781432605261 | Kessinger Pub Co, May 31, 2005, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: 1918.
9781404310704 | Indypublish.Com, June 1, 2002, cover price $22.99 | About this edition: Originally published in 1922, this book considers topics that remain of vital interest to today's readers, including monogamy and polygamy, prostitution, the double standard, sexual harassment, and declining birth and marriage rates.
9781560004813 | Large print edition (Transaction Pub Large Print, December 1, 1999), cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Originally published in 1922, this book considers topics that remain of vital interest to today's readers, including monogamy and polygamy, prostitution, the double standard, sexual harassment, and declining birth and marriage rates.
9780374955717 | Octagon Books, June 1, 1976, cover price $22.50 | About this edition: Originally published in 1922, this book considers topics that remain of vital interest to today's readers, including monogamy and polygamy, prostitution, the double standard, sexual harassment, and declining birth and marriage rates.

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9781605206103 | Cosimo Inc, July 30, 2009, cover price $9.99 | About this edition: He was one of the most influential American writers of the 20th century, but like most men of his time, he was never more clueless about women than when he believed himself most enlightened about them.
9781409964018 | Dodo Pr, March 30, 2009, cover price $13.99 | About this edition: Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956), was an American journalist, essayist, magazine editor, satirist, and acerbic critic of American life and culture.
9781604501285 | Arc Manor, March 31, 2008, cover price $5.99 | About this edition: Please visit www.
9781428022157 | Indypublish.Com, August 30, 2006, cover price $12.99
9781417905164 | Kessinger Pub Co, May 30, 2005, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: 1918.
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By Ben Kutcher, H. L. Mencken (contributor) and Oscar Wilde
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9781120161864 | Kessinger Pub Co, September 15, 2009, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.

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Product Description: Perhaps the first truly important book about the divergence of American English from its British roots, this survey of the language as it was spoken-and as it was changing-at the beginning of the 20th century comes via one of its most inveterate watchers, journalist, critic, and editor HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN (1880-1956)...read more
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9780394400754 | 4th edition (Alfred a Knopf Inc, June 1, 1948), cover price $60.00 | About this edition: A modified, one-volume edition of Mencken's classic analysis of American English

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9781605206233, titled "The American Language: A Preliminary Inquiry into the Development of English in the United States" | Cosimo Inc, August 31, 2009, cover price $24.99 | About this edition: Perhaps the first truly important book about the divergence of American English from its British roots, this survey of the language as it was spoken-and as it was changing-at the beginning of the 20th century comes via one of its most inveterate watchers, journalist, critic, and editor HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN (1880-1956).

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9780548105924 | Kessinger Pub Co, July 30, 2007, cover price $45.95 | About this edition: This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.
9780374955809, titled "Prejudices, Third Series" | Octagon Books, October 1, 1976, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index.

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9781428613812 | Kessinger Pub Co, May 30, 2006, cover price $30.95 | About this edition: This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.

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Product Description: He was one of the most influential American writers of the 20th century, and the six collections of his essays and reviews published between 1919 and 1927 as his *Prejudices* are among his most entertaining reading. American satirist and critic HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN (1880-1956) believed that criticism rose to the level of art when it was used as a springboard for the critic's own philosophizing on art and culture...read more
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9781605206226 | Cosimo Inc, July 30, 2009, cover price $9.99 | About this edition: He was one of the most influential American writers of the 20th century, and the six collections of his essays and reviews published between 1919 and 1927 as his *Prejudices* are among his most entertaining reading.

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Product Description: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience...read more
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9780554813103 | Lightning Source Inc, August 31, 2008, cover price $26.99 | About this edition: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality.
9780554813011 | Large print edition (Lightning Source Inc, August 31, 2008), cover price $30.99 | About this edition: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality.
9781432604790 | Kessinger Pub Co, January 31, 2005, cover price $37.95 | About this edition: 1920.

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9780554813042 | Large print edition (Lightning Source Inc, August 31, 2008), cover price $22.75 | About this edition: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality.
9781409720409, titled "Heliogabalus, a Buffoonery in Three Acts" | Lightning Source Inc, May 31, 2008, cover price $27.45 | About this edition: Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive.
9781409713234, titled "Heliogabalus, a Buffoonery in Three Acts" | Read Books, May 30, 2008, cover price $27.45 | About this edition: HELIOGABALUS A BUFFOONERY IiV THREE ACTS by H.
9781410108425 | Fredonia Books, May 31, 2005, cover price $17.99 | About this edition: Written on a lark by Mencken, with only a little assistance from his friend and Smart Set co-editor George Jean Nathan, in order to prove to themselves how easy it was to write a successful play.
9781417904709, titled "Heliogabalus a Buffoonery in Three Acts" | Kessinger Pub Co, January 31, 2005, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: 1920.
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Product Description: 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 20th century...read more
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9781437887181 | Indypublish.Com, January 30, 2009, cover price $77.99
9781428051997 | Indypublish.Com, January 31, 2007, cover price $94.99

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9781409967071 | Dodo Pr, March 30, 2009, cover price $12.99 | About this edition: Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956), was an American journalist, essayist, magazine editor, satirist, and acerbic critic of American life and culture.
9781604502039, titled "Damn! A Book of Calumny" | Arc Manor, April 30, 2008, cover price $3.99 | About this edition: Please visit www.
9781408657546 | Read Books, February 29, 2008, cover price $26.45 | About this edition: Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive.
9780548622766 | Kessinger Pub Co, October 30, 2007, cover price $20.95 | About this edition: This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.
9781428052017 | Indypublish.Com, January 31, 2007, cover price $70.99 | About this edition: The book has no illustrations or index.

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Product Description: 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 20th century...read more
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9780394400815 | 4 abridged edition (Random House Inc, June 1, 1977), cover price $35.00 | About this edition: A modified edition of Mencken's classic analysis of American English

Paperback:

9781409956518 | Dodo Pr, December 15, 2008, cover price $38.99 | About this edition: Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956), was an American journalist, essayist, magazine editor, satirist, and acerbic critic of American life and culture.
9780394733159 | 4th edition (Alfred a Knopf Inc, March 1, 1977), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: A modified, one-volume edition of Mencken's classic analysis of American English

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Product Description: Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
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9781409770763 | Lightning Source Inc, June 30, 2008, cover price $29.45 | About this edition: Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive.

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Product Description: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience...read more
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9781110562886 | Lightning Source Inc, June 30, 2009, cover price $30.99 | About this edition: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality.
9781437807530 | Indypublish.Com, May 31, 2008, cover price $94.99
9780548092309 | Kessinger Pub Co, July 30, 2007, cover price $42.95 | About this edition: This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.

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9781409778226 | Lightning Source Inc, June 30, 2008, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive.
9781409778233 | Lightning Source Inc, June 30, 2008, cover price $28.95 | About this edition: Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive.
9781437807578 | Indypublish.Com, May 31, 2008, cover price $88.99
9781425497811 | Kessinger Pub Co, May 30, 2006, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.

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Product Description: George Jean Nathan (1882-1958) who also wrote under the pseudonym Owen Hatteras, was an American drama critic and editor. Together with H. L. Mencken, he co-edited the magazine The Smart Set from 1914 and co-founded The American Mercury in 1924...read more
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9781409905646 | Dodo Pr, April 30, 2008, cover price $13.99 | About this edition: George Jean Nathan (1882-1958) who also wrote under the pseudonym Owen Hatteras, was an American drama critic and editor.

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Product Description: James Branch Cabell (1879-1958) was an American author of fantasy fiction and belles lettres. He worked from 1898 to 1900 as a newpaper reporter in New York City, but returned to Richmond in 1901, where he worked several months on the staff of the Richmond News...read more
By H. L. Mencken (introduced by)
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9781406597363 | Dodo Pr, March 31, 2008, cover price $9.99 | About this edition: James Branch Cabell (1879-1958) was an American author of fantasy fiction and belles lettres.

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Product Description: Please visit www.ArcManor.com for other works by this and other authors.
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9781604500936 | Arc Manor, February 28, 2008, cover price $7.99 | About this edition: Please visit www.

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