More - Softcover

Beerbohm Sir, Max

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0992523486 ISBN 13: 9780992523480

Publisher: Michael Walmer, 2023

Synopsis

Max Beerbohm presents in More a collection of twenty brilliantly amusing essays. In a wide-ranging tour through both the inspiring and the ridiculous in English fin de siecle society, Beerbohm casts a veiled critical drubbing here, and a wistful though sprightly appreciation there, thoroughly entertaining us and accurately spearing his victims. Some of his most noted work appeared in this second little volume when it was first published in 1899. In "Punch" he asks us if the magazine's terrible dullness is not our own fault; in An Infamous Brigade the question is revolved as to whether the fire engine is not an infernal machine designed to dampen our pleasure; in The Blight on the Music Halls we must critically consider the relative merits of vulgarity and refinement; in Ouida the famed enthusiastic author's wild colour and occasional infelicities are justly celebrated; in Arise, Sir - -! the decorations offered to literary time-servers are the saucy target; in A Cloud of Pinafores the cult of childlike simplicity tempts the author's tongue, and sharpens its point... With razor-edged wit and a perfect ear for irony, Max Beerbohm delivers us in More twenty further reasons to call him the finest, and funniest, essayist of his era.

About this title

About the Author

Henri Maximilian Beerbohm est un ecrivain et caricaturiste anglais ne le 24 Aout 1872 a Londres et mort le 19 Mai 1956 a Rapallo. Il etudie a l universite d Oxford avant de publier ses premiers articles et ses premieres caricatures dans la revue The Yellow book. Il devient ensuite, en remplacement de Georges Bernard Shaw, le critique dramatique de la revue The Saturday Review. En 1911 parait son unique roman, "Zuleika Dobson", qui reste a ce jour son uvre la plus connue. Dandy, mondain brillant et spirituel que le Tout Londres nommait - Max -, Beerbohm a ete l ami d Oscar Wilde qu il a defendu pendant son proces.

Edition details

• Publisher: Michael Walmer
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0992523486
• ISBN 13: 9780992523480
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 212