A Book of Prefaces

H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken

by H. L. Mencken Contents Introduction I The Feminine Mind II The War between The Sexes III Marriage IV Woman Suffrage V The New Age Introduct...

H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken

http://www.freeliterature.org (Images generously made available by the Internet Archive.) THE PHILOSOPHY OF FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE BY H. L. MENCKEN I shall be told, I suppose, that my p...

H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken

PREJUDICES: THIRD SERIES I. ON BEING AN AMERICAN 1 Apparently there are those who begin to find it disagreeable--nay, impossible.

H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken

I JOSEPH CONRAD § 1 "Under all his stories there ebbs and flows a kind of tempered melancholy, a sense of seeking and not finding...."

Jane Austen

Chapter 1 It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Letter 1 St. Petersburgh, Dec. 11th, 17-- TO Mrs. Saville, England You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such ...

Herman Melville

Original Transcriber's Notes: This text is a combination of etexts, one from the now-defunct ERIS project at Virginia Tech and one from Project Gutenberg's archives.

Charles Dickens

Book the First--Recalled to Life I. The Period It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was...