Author: Sir Max BeerbohmPublisher: New York : C. Scribner's Sons
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
The Works of Max Beerbohm
Author: Sir Max BeerbohmPublisher: New York : C. Scribner's Sons
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
The Prince of Minor Writers
Author: Max BeerbohmPublisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1590178297
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
AN NYRB CLASSICS ORIGINAL Virginia Woolf called Max Beerbohm “the prince” of essayists, F. W. Dupee praised his “whim of iron” and “cleverness amounting to genius,” while Beerbohm himself noted that “only the insane take themselves quite seriously.” From his precocious debut as a dandy in 1890s Oxford until he put his pen aside in the aftermath of World War II, Beerbohm was recognized as an incomparable observer of modern life and an essayist whose voice was always and only his own. Here Phillip Lopate, one of the finest essayists of our day, has selected the finest of Beerbohm’s essays. Whether writing about the vogue for Russian writers, laughter and philosophy, dandies, or George Bernard Shaw, Beerbohm is as unpredictable as he is unfailingly witty and wise. As Lopate writes, “Today . . . it becomes all the more necessary to ponder how Beerbohm performed the delicate operation of displaying so much personality without lapsing into sticky confession.”
Zuleika Dobson
Author: Max BeerbohmPublisher: LA CASE Books
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story, is the only novel by English essayist Max Beerbohm, a satire of undergraduate life at Oxford published in 1911. It includes the famous line "Death cancels all engagements" and presents a corrosive view of Edwardian Oxford. The all-male campus of Oxford—Beerbohm’s alma mater—is a place where aesthetics holds sway above all else, and where witty intellectuals reign. Things haven’t changed for its privileged student body for years . . . until the beguiling music-hall prestidigitator Zuleika Dobson shows up. The book’s marvelous prose dances along the line between reality and the absurd as students and dons alike fall at Zuleika’s feet, and she cuts a wide swath across the campus—until she encounters one young aristocrat for whom she is astonished to find she has feelings. As Zuleika, and her creator, zero in on their targets, the book takes some surprising and dark twists on its way to a truly startling ending—an ending so striking that readers will understand why Virginia Woolf said that “Mr. Beerbohm in his way is perfect.” In 1998, the Modern Library ranked Zuleika Dobson 59th on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century.
The Happy Hypocrite
Author: Sir Max BeerbohmYet Again
Author: Sir Max BeerbohmPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Essays first published in various periodicals.
Seven Men
Author: Sir Max BeerbohmPublisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1554809878
Category : Character sketches
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
A Christmas Garland
Author: Sir Max BeerbohmPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Parodies
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Max Beerbohm Caricatures
Author: N. John HallPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300072174
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Max Beerbohm, the foremost caricaturist of his day, was hailed by The Times in 1913 as the greatest of English comic artists, by Bernard Berenson as the English Goya, and by Edmund Wilson as the greatest...portrayer of personalities - in the history of art.
Correspondence
Author: N. John HallPublisher: David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN: 1567924123
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
This is a book for lovers of Victorian literature, but it is also a bracing antidote for those less enthusiastic readers who may have found Dickens a little too melodramatic, Thackeray too allusive, Trollope too protean, and Hardy too pessimistic. For both kinds of readers Hall's book offers the hope of redemption, a thoroughly engrossing ramble through the literature of the enduring Victorian galaxy.
Max Beerbohm
Author: N. John HallPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300097054
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Om den engelske forfatter og tegner Max Beerbohm (1872-1956)