Three Early Works (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

Three Early Works (Barnes & Noble Digital Library) Synopsis

This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading.H. L. Mencken presents master styling in A Book of Prefaces (1917), Damn! (1918), and The American Credo (1920).

Prefaces is a book of literary criticism containing the essays "e;Joseph Conrad,"e; "e;Theodore Dreiser,"e; "e;James Huneker,"e; and "e;Puritanism as a Literary Force."e; He hoped that "e;they may at least blow a wind through the prevailing fogs, and reveal what is sound and important in some first-rate books."e; The ensuing intellectual battle energized a generation. Damn! A Book of Calumny contains some of Mencken's wittier turns in its forty-nine short essays.

It has been mined for anthologies, but it has never before been reprinted as a whole. The American Credo: A Contribution Toward the Interpretation of the National Mind contains four hundred and eighty-eight articles, co-written by drama critic George Jean Nathan, about American popular belief.