H.L. Mencken Audio Books

It was part of my daily work, for a good many years, to read the principal English newspapers and reviews; it has been part of my work, all the time, to read the more important English novels, essays, poetry and criticism.

In Defense of Women is H. L. Mencken's 1918 book on women and the relationship between the sexes. While Mencken didn't champion women's rights, he described women as wiser in many novel and observable ways, while demeaning average men.

Edited and annotated by H. L. M., this is a selection from his out-of-print writings.

Mencken sharpens his pen and in a collection of short essays delivers acerbic opinions on issues and persons of the time.

Written during the 1920s, an era that reflects much of our modern times 100 years later, this book by culture critic and scholar Mencken dissects what democracy is.

American journalist H.L. Mencken’s Notes On Democracy was originally published in 1926, yet is still relevant almost 100 years later.

Henry Louis "H. L." Mencken (1880 – 1956) was an American journalist, essayist, magazine editor, satirist, acerbic critic of American life and culture, and a student of American English.