BLACK BOY
by Richard Wright · Harper
Poignant and disturbing record of social injustice and human suffering.
A. WOOLLCOTT: His Life and His World
by Samuel Hopkins Adams · Reynal & Hitchcock
Adams claims Woollcott was not homosexual, p. 296-297.--dm.
AMERICAN LANGUAGE SUPPLEMENT
by H.L. Mencken · Knopf
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).In this replica of the 1921 "revised and enlarged" second edition, Mencken turns his keen ear on: • the general character of American English • loan-words and non-English influences • expletives and forbidden words • American slang • the future of the language • and much, much more. Anyone fascinated by words will find this a thoroughly enthralling look at the most changeable language on the face of the planet.
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