Yet Again - Softcover

Beerbohm, Max

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0648590550 ISBN 13: 9780648590552

Publisher: Michael Walmer, 2023

Synopsis

In 1909, ten years had elapsed since Max Beerbohm’s last volume of essays. In the  time which had passed, his style had evolved to become a little more elegiac, a little less over-consciously clever.  Yet Again gave full voice to his new mode, moulded by constant journalism into a superb clear flow. Still present are trenchantly funny criticism of banality, gorgeous erudition, countered expectations and, most of all, delicious irony. In ​Seeing People Off we are asked to examine the terrible truth behind awkward goodbyes; in A Club in Ruins the strange and lugubrious magnetism of dying buildings is surveyed; in Ichabod​ the author shamefacedly asks himself why he should mind that all the labels have been cleaned from his luggage; in The House of Commons Manner he bemoans the surprising lack of skill in speaking of the august members of that house; and in Dulcedo Judiciorum a full account is rendered of the superiority of the entertainment provided by the law courts over that of the theatre. Alongside seventeen other brilliant essays, there is here also a special section of nine imaginative depictions  inspired by famous artworks.

Edition details

• Publisher: Michael Walmer
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0648590550
• ISBN 13: 9780648590552
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 318