Share This
H. L. Mencken
Henry Louis "H. L." Mencken (September 12, 1880 – January 29, 1956), was an American journalist, essayist, magazine editor, satirist, acerbic critic of American life and culture, and a student of American English. Mencken, known as the "Sage of Baltimore", is regarded as one of the most influential...
Learn more about H. L. Mencken »
Add More Topics
Save this view to a base, or just for yourself.
about 72 Written Work topics matching:
Filter this Collection
A Book of Prefaces
A Book of Prefaces is H. L. Mencken's 1917 collection of essays criticizing American culture, authors, and movements. Mencken describing this work as "[My] most important book in its effects upon my professional career." In fact, the book was...
Author:
In Defense of Women
In Defense of Women is H. L. Mencken's 1918 book on women and the relationship between the sexes. Some laud the book as progressive while others brand it as reactionary. While Mencken did not champion women's rights, he described women as wiser in...
Author:
The American Language
The American Language, first published in 1919, is H. L. Mencken's book about the English language as spoken in the United States.
Mencken was inspired by "the argot of the colored waiters" in Washington, as well as one of his favorite authors, Mark...
Author:
George Bernard Shaw: His Plays
George Bernard Shaw: His Plays (1905) is H. L. Mencken's interpretation of G. Bernard Shaw's plays, in which Mencken overwhelmingly embraced the man who was, at that time, his favourite playwright.
According to Mencken: "Through Shaw, I found my...
Author:
Libido for the Ugly
The Libido for the Ugly is H. L. Mencken's 1927 essay, making use of Juvenalian satire, that criticises the architecture of the Pittsburgh area and praises that of Europe.
Author:
Menckeneana: A Schimpflexikon
Menckeneanea: A Schimpflexikon is a collection of articles and quotations denouncing H. L. Mencken, collected and arranged by Mencken himself.
The word “schimpflexikon” is from the German language, which Mencken spoke fluently; it means, roughly, a...
Author:
Happy Days, 1880–1892
Happy Days, 1880–1892 (1940) is the first of an autobiographical trilogy by H.L. Mencken, covering his days as a child in Baltimore, Maryland.
The book was received with some surprise by Mencken's readers, since, unlike his commentaries on current...
Author:
Treatise on the gods
Author:
Do you remember?
Author:
The Vintage Mencken
Author:
Friedrich Nietzsche
Author:
A k a H.L. Mencken
Author:
Newspaper Days, 1899-1906
Newspaper Days, 1899-1906 is a book by H. L. Mencken.
Date of first publication:
- 1941
Author:
Ich Kuss Die Hand
Author:
Marriage
Author:
Christmas story
Author:
Europe After 8
Author:
Selected prejudices
Author:
gang of pecksniffs
Author:
Letters
Author:
personal word
Author:
young Mencken
Author:
Prej́ugeś
Author:
The New Age
Author:
Vachel Lindsay
Author:
Notes on democracy
Author:
book of burlesques
Author:
Three Early Works
Author:
gist of Mencken
Author:
Ventures into verse
Author:
Mencken chrestomathy
Author:
Letters from Baltimore
Author:
James Branch Cabell
Author:
Dreiser bugaboo
Author:
impossible H.L. Mencken
Author:
