Prejudices, First Series: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
Prejudices, First Series by H. L. Mencken: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 21 original MP3 tracks, 7:00:54 running time and a link to listen.
Prejudices, First Series, credited to H. L. Mencken, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.
About the work
The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:
LibriVox recording of Prejudices, First Series by H. L. Mencken. Read in English by DrPGould; Linda Johnson; Larry Wilson; Karen Mallozzi; Shasta 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
Recording facts
- Recording title: Prejudices, First Series
- Author credits: H. L. Mencken
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 21
- Listed recording duration: 7:00:54
Catalogue topics
- us culture 1910-1919
- literary criticism
- mencken
Track guide
- 01 - Criticism of Criticism of Criticism — 18:55
- 02 - The Late Mr. Wells — 25:31
- 03 - Arnold Bennett — 30:39
- 04 - The Dean — 10:48
- 05 - Professor Veblen — 35:50
- 06 - The New Poetry Movement — 23:22
- 07 - The Heir of Mark Twain — 9:51
- 08 - Hermann Sudermann — 18:07
- 09 - George Ade — 20:35
- 10 - The Butte Bashkirtseff — 12:13
- 11 - Six Members of the Institute — 29:01
- 12 - The Genealogy of Etiquette — 38:27
- 13 - The American Magazine — 18:42
- 14 - The Ulster Polonius — 17:30
- 15 - An Unheeded Law-Giver — 8:52
- 16 - The Blushful Mystery — 26:52
- 17 - George Jean Nathan — 28:44
- 18 - Portrait of an Immortal Soul — 21:20
- 19 - Jack London — 7:08
- 20 - Among the Avatars — 11:26
- 21 - Three American Immortals — 7:00
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