SOURCE: "Dreiser in 840 Pages," in the American Mercury, Vol. 7, No. 17, March, 1926, pp. 379-81.
In the following essay, Mencken praises the second volume of An American Tragedy, but calls the first "vast, sloppy, chaotic. "
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