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==Works== === 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 (1919β27) ** ''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) β Editor * ''[[Treatise on the Gods]]'' (1930) * ''Making a President'' (1932) * ''Treatise on Right and Wrong'' (1934) * ''[[Happy Days, 1880β1892]]'' (1940) * ''Newspaper Days, 1899β1906'' (1941)<ref>{{Cite news |date=July 3, 2009 |title=Jonathan Yardley's Second Reading: H. L. Mencken's 'Newspaper Days' |newspaper=The Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/02/AR2009070203867.html |url-status=live |access-date=August 29, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191001191246/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/02/AR2009070203867.html |archive-date=October 1, 2019}}</ref> * ''A New Dictionary of Quotations on Historical Principles from Ancient and Modern Sources'' (1942) * ''Heathen Days, 1890β1936'' (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) * {{Citation |title=The American Scene |year=1965 |editor-last=Cairns |editor-first=Huntington}}. * ''The Bathtub Hoax and Other Blasts and Bravos from the Chicago Tribune'' (1958) * {{Citation |title=A Gang of Pecksniffs: And Other Comments on Newspaper Publishers, Editors and Reporters |year=1975 |editor-last=Lippman |editor-first=Theo Jr}}. * {{Citation |title=The Impossible H.L. Mencken: A Selection of His Best Newspaper Stories |year=1991 |editor-last=Rodgers |editor-first=Marion Elizabeth}}. * {{Citation |title=My Life As Author and Editor |year=1992 |editor-last=Yardley |editor-first=Jonathan |editor-link=Jonathan Yardley}}. * ''A Second Mencken Chrestomathy'' (1994) (edited by [[Terry Teachout]]) * ''Thirty-five Years of Newspaper Work'' (1996) * {{Citation |title=A Religious Orgy in Tennessee: A Reporter's Account of the Scopes Monkey Trial |year=2006 |publisher=[[Melville House Publishing]]}}. === 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) * ''[https://writing2.richmond.edu/jessid/eng423/restricted/mencken.pdf The Sahara of the Bozart] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211206150125/http://writing2.richmond.edu/jessid/eng423/restricted/mencken.pdf |date=December 6, 2021 }}'' (1920) * ''[[Bloviation#Gamalielese|Gamalielese]]'' (1921) * "[http://bactra.org/Mencken/the-hills-of-zion/ The Hills of Zion]" (1925) * ''[[The Libido for the Ugly]]'' (1927) * The Penalty of Death<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Penalty of Death by H.L. Mencken {{!}} Major English {{!}} Class 12 β Mero Notice |date=March 23, 2021 |url=https://meronotice.com/the-penalty-of-death-by-h-l-mencken-major-english-class-12/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210913210624/https://meronotice.com/the-penalty-of-death-by-h-l-mencken-major-english-class-12/ |archive-date=September 13, 2021 |access-date=April 6, 2021 |language=en-US}}</ref> ===Translations (excerpt)=== * Friedrich Nietzsches: [[The Antichrist (book)|''The Antichrist β Translated and Introduced by H. L. Mencken'']], Alfred A. Knopf, New York 1918 ([https://www.gutenberg.org/files/19322/19322-h/19322-h.htm Project Gutenberg EBook of ''The Antichrist''])
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