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)
Chapitres
| Criticism of Criticism of Criticism | 18:55 | Lu par DrPGould |
| The Late Mr. Wells | 25:31 | Lu par Linda Johnson |
| Arnold Bennett | 30:39 | Lu par Linda Johnson |
| The Dean | 10:48 | Lu par DrPGould |
| Professor Veblen | 35:50 | Lu par DrPGould |
| The New Poetry Movement | 23:22 | Lu par Larry Wilson |
| The Heir of Mark Twain | 9:51 | Lu par Karen Mallozzi |
| Hermann Sudermann | 18:07 | Lu par Shasta |
| George Ade | 20:35 | Lu par Shasta |
| The Butte Bashkirtseff | 12:13 | Lu par Shasta |
| Six Members of the Institute | 29:01 | Lu par DrPGould |
| The Genealogy of Etiquette | 38:27 | Lu par Linda Johnson |
| The American Magazine | 18:43 | Lu par Linda Johnson |
| The Ulster Polonius | 17:30 | Lu par Linda Johnson |
| An Unheeded Law-Giver | 8:52 | Lu par Shasta |
| The Blushful Mystery | 26:52 | Lu par Shasta |
| George Jean Nathan | 28:44 | Lu par Linda Johnson |
| Portrait of an Immortal Soul | 21:20 | Lu par Linda Johnson |
| Jack London | 7:08 | Lu par Linda Johnson |
| Among the Avatars | 11:26 | Lu par Linda Johnson |
| Three American Immortals | 7:00 | Lu par Larry Wilson |