H. L. Mencken

Books

    George Bernard Shaw: His Plays (1905)

    The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche (1908)

    The Gist of Nietzsche (1910)

    What You Ought to Know about your Baby (Ghostwriter for Leonard K. Hirshberg; 1910)

    Men versus the Man: a Correspondence between Robert Rives La Monte, Socialist and H. L. Mencken, Individualist (1910)

    Europe After 8:15 (1914)

    A Book of Burlesques (1916)

    A Little Book in C Major (1916)

    A Book of Prefaces (1917)

    In Defense of Women (1918)

    Damn! A Book of Calumny (1918)

    The American Language (1919)

    Prejudices (1919–27)

        First Series (1919)

        Second Series (1920)

        Third Series (1922)

        Fourth Series (1924)

        Fifth Series (1926)

        Sixth Series (1927)

        Selected Prejudices (1927)

    Heliogabalus (A Buffoonery in Three Acts) (1920)

    The American Credo (1920)

    Notes on Democracy (1926)

    Menckeneana: A Schimpflexikon (1928) – Editor

    Treatise on the Gods (1930)

    Making a President (1932)

    Treatise on Right and Wrong (1934)

    Happy Days, 1880–1892 (1940)

    Newspaper Days, 1899–1906 (1941)[59]

    A New Dictionary of Quotations on Historical Principles from Ancient and Modern Sources (1942)

    Heathen Days, 1890–1936 (1943)

    Christmas Story (1944)

    The American Language, Supplement I (1945)

    The American Language, Supplement II (1948)

    A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949) (edited by H.L. Mencken)

Posthumous collections

    Minority Report (1956)

    On Politics: A Carnival of Buncombe (1956)

    Cairns, Huntington, ed. (1965), The American Scene.

    The Bathtub Hoax and Other Blasts and Bravos from the Chicago Tribune (1958)

    Lippman, Theo Jr, ed. (1975), A Gang of Pecksniffs: And Other Comments on Newspaper Publishers, Editors and Reporters.

    Rodgers, Marion Elizabeth, ed. (1991), The Impossible H.L. Mencken: A Selection of His Best Newspaper Stories.

    Yardley, Jonathan, ed. (1992), My Life As Author and Editor.

    A Second Mencken Chrestomathy (1994) (edited by Terry Teachout)

    Thirty-five Years of Newspaper Work (1996)

    A Religious Orgy in Tennessee: A Reporter's Account of the Scopes Monkey Trial, Melville House Publishing, 2006.

Chapbooks, pamphlets, and notable essays

Ventures into Verse (1903)

The Artist: A Drama Without Words (1912)

The Creed of a Novelist (1916)

Pistols for Two (1917)

The Sahara of the Bozart Archived December 6, 2021, at the Wayback Machine (1920)

Gamalielese (1921)

"The Hills of Zion" (1925)

The Libido for the Ugly (1927)

The Penalty of Death[60]

Translations (excerpt)

    Friedrich Nietzsches: The Antichrist – Translated and Introduced by H. L. Mencken, Alfred A. Knopf, New York 1918 (Project Gutenberg EBook of The Antichrist)

See also