Henry Louis "H. L." Mencken was a German-American journalist, satirist, cultural critic and scholar of American English. known as the "Sage of Baltimore". One of the most influential American writers and prose stylists of the first half of the twentieth century, he produced dozens of books. In this volume we reproduce SEVEN of those books, including some of the most important ones, like The American Language, which gave Mencken reputation as a scholar; a multi-volume study of how the English language is spoken in the United States. As an admirer of German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, he was a detractor of religion, populism and representative democracy, which he believed was a system in which inferior men dominated their superiors. We include in this collection his work on Nietzche. The books THE AMERICAN CREDO THE AMERICAN LANGUAGE THE PHILOSOPHY OF FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE A BOOK OF BURLESQUES A BOOK OF PREFACES DAMN! A BOOK OF CALUMNY IN DEFENSE OF WOMEN