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This books precursor, a mencken chrestomathy collection, was a bestseller in 1949. Underground comix project gutenberg selfpublishing. You may copy it, give it away or reuse it under the terms of the project gutenberg license included with this ebook or online at. The culling of the best, the choicest passages, from the famous prejudices, which in their day made mencken leader of the iconoclasts, shocker of the conservatives, and favorite of the younger. If a book is already in or at a future time enters the public domain of other countries which have a project gutenberg site, we encourage these sites to use the project gutenberg canada editions. The text is available from project gutenberg as usual, though with one of its several alternative titles. Chesterton this ebook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. The project gutenberg ebook of putnams handy law book for the layman, by albert sidney bolles this ebook is for the use of anyone anywhere at. This is a hypertext formatted version of the project gutenberg edition. It was johannes gutenberg and his movable type printing press that was the innovative disruption that changed everything. This documentation includes not just the main text of the book, but also any preface, illustration, or photograph included in the book. Gutenberg, or the ship of theseus, with examples of what gutenberg might do in the future. Jul 26, 2015 grabbing the text from project gutenberg, ive made two different graph representations.
The renowned baltimore journalist who said that national political conventions and politicians were for connoisseurs of the obscene would have never. Mencken collection ms0001 3 scope and contents this small collection of pamphlets, reprints, and correspondence is part of the larger collection of one hundred individually cataloged monographs and serials by and about h. They differ from mainstream comics in depicting content forbidden to mainstream publications by the comics code authority, including explicit drug use, sexuality and violence. Additionally you can follow updates in the make wordpress core blog. With a style that combined biting sarcasm with the language of the free lunch counter, henry louis mencken shook politics and. Mencken this ebook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. Project gutenberg is the worlds largest digital library. They were most popular in the united states between 1968 and 1975, and in the.