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Title: Prejudices, fourth series

Author: H. L. Mencken

Release date: May 3, 2022 [eBook #67978]
Most recently updated: October 18, 2024

Language: English

Original publication: United States: Alfred A. Knopf, 1924

Credits: Emmanuel Ackerman and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PREJUDICES, FOURTH SERIES ***

PREJUDICES
FOURTH SERIES

THE WORKS OF H. L. MENCKEN

  • PREJUDICES: FIRST SERIES[1]
  • PREJUDICES: SECOND SERIES[1]
  • PREJUDICES: THIRD SERIES[1]
  • PREJUDICES: FOURTH SERIES
  • A BOOK OF BURLESQUES[1]
  • A BOOK OF PREFACES[1]
  • IN DEFENSE OF WOMEN[1][2]
  • THE AMERICAN LANGUAGE[1]
  • THE AMERICAN CREDO
  • [With George Jean Nathan]

OUT OF PRINT

  • VENTURES INTO VERSE
  • GEORGE BERNARD SHAW: HIS PLAYS
  • THE ARTIST
  • A LITTLE BOOK IN C MAJOR
  • A BOOK OF CALUMNY
  • MEN VS. THE MAN
  • [With R. R. LaMonte]
  • HELIOGABALUS[2]
  • [With Mr. Nathan]
  • EUROPE AFTER 8:15
  • [With Mr. Nathan and W. H. Wright]
  • THE PHILOSOPHY OF FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE[1]

TRANSLATIONS

  • THE ANTICHRIST, BY F. W. NIETZSCHE

NEW YORK: ALFRED · A · KNOPF

FOOTNOTES:

[1] Also Published in England

[2] Also Published in Germany in translation