Henry Louis Mencken

Professor H L Mencken

Chronicles Mencken's remarkable life, discussing his rivalries, feuds and friendships, views on the world, and much more

My Life as Author and Editor

"The present edition is addressed to a wider audience, in more civilized countries, and so I have felt free to introduce a number of propositions, not to be found in popular proverbs, that had to be omitted from the original edition. But even so, the book by no means pretends to preach revolutionary doctrines, or even doctrines of any novelty. All I design by it is to set down in more or less plain form certain ideas that practically every civilized man and woman holds in petto, but that have been concealed hitherto by the vast mass of sentimentalities swathing the whole woman question."(H.L. Mencken, Introduction)

Professor H L Mencken

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