The first of Mencken’s six volumes of collected opinions opens with a criticism of criticism and then turns on the reputations of the day. H. G. Wells, Arnold Bennett, William Dean Howells as the dean of American letters, Thorstein Veblen’s prose, the new poetry movement, George Ade, Hermann Sudermann, Marie Bashkirtseff’s Montana imitator and the American magazine all come under his pen.
Mencken in full cry, as quotable and outrageous now as in 1919. Download the free EPUB.