Overview :Max Beerbohm's erudite wit and playful conceits represent the pinnacle of the Aesthetic period's capacity to laugh at itself whilst celebrat... Read More
Overview :Max Beerbohm was widely celebrated as the wittiest mind of his age. And it was a very long age indeed: he became famous in the mid-1890s and... Read More
Overview :Max Beerbohm was an elusive and marginal genius--marginal in the sense that he always assumed the role of parodist, looking in from the edge... Read More
Overview :Sir Henry Maximilian Beerbohm (1872-1956) was an English parodist and caricaturist. His first book, The Works of Max Beerbohm, was published... Read More
Overview :None, it is said, of all who revelled with the Regent, was half so wicked as Lord George Hell. I will not trouble my little readers with a l... Read More
Overview :AN NYRB CLASSICS ORIGINAL Virginia Woolf called Max Beerbohm "the prince" of essayists, F. W. Dupee praised his "whim of iron" and "cleverne... Read More
Overview :In William Blissett's masterful study The Porpoise and the Otter, we encounter dapper, choosy Max Beerbohm (1872-1956) and the massive untid... Read More
Overview :This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, ... Read More
Overview :Max Beerbohm presents in More a collection of twenty brilliantly amusing essays. In a wide-ranging tour through both the inspiring and the r... Read More
Overview :This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This ... Read More
Overview :There, on that October evening-there, in that exuberant vista of gilding and crimson velvet set amidst all those opposing mirrors and uphold... Read More