Prejudices, First Series
H. L. Mencken
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Mencken sharpens his pen and in a collection of short essays delivers acerbic opinions on issues and persons of the time. Among his targets in this volume (the first of six) are critics, H.G. Wells Thorstein Veblen, Arnold Bennett, William Dean Howells, Irvin S. Cobb. Mencken's critiques are delivered against a background of his own well known ethnic, racial, religious, and sectional prejudices. (It is said that the only thing Mencken loved about the Southern United States was his wife, who hailed from Alabama.) Not for the faint of heart, Mencken's prickly, yet unapologetic, prose reveals a window into American attitudes at the time they were written and their influences on the larger American culture. - Summary by DrPGould (7 hr 0 min)
Chapters
| Criticism of Criticism of Criticism | 18:55 | Read by DrPGould |
| The Late Mr. Wells | 25:31 | Read by Linda Johnson |
| Arnold Bennett | 30:39 | Read by Linda Johnson |
| The Dean | 10:48 | Read by DrPGould |
| Professor Veblen | 35:50 | Read by DrPGould |
| The New Poetry Movement | 23:22 | Read by Larry Wilson |
| The Heir of Mark Twain | 9:51 | Read by Karen Mallozzi |
| Hermann Sudermann | 18:07 | Read by Shasta |
| George Ade | 20:35 | Read by Shasta |
| The Butte Bashkirtseff | 12:13 | Read by Shasta |
| Six Members of the Institute | 29:01 | Read by DrPGould |
| The Genealogy of Etiquette | 38:27 | Read by Linda Johnson |
| The American Magazine | 18:43 | Read by Linda Johnson |
| The Ulster Polonius | 17:30 | Read by Linda Johnson |
| An Unheeded Law-Giver | 8:52 | Read by Shasta |
| The Blushful Mystery | 26:52 | Read by Shasta |
| George Jean Nathan | 28:44 | Read by Linda Johnson |
| Portrait of an Immortal Soul | 21:20 | Read by Linda Johnson |
| Jack London | 7:08 | Read by Linda Johnson |
| Among the Avatars | 11:26 | Read by Linda Johnson |
| Three American Immortals | 7:00 | Read by Larry Wilson |