The Prince of Minor Writers
The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm
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…
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Weitere Autoren: Lopate, Phillip (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-59017-829-4
- EAN: 9781590178294
- Produktnummer: 16837793
- Verlag: New York Review Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 432 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'451 KB
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Max Beerbohm (1872-1956) was born in London and studied at Oxford. He published his first collection of essays, The Works of Max Beerbohm, in 1896 and soon developed a reputation as a brilliant caricaturist and critic. He was married to the American actress Florence Kahn and lived in Rapallo, Italy, for most of his later life. In addition to The Prince of Minor Writers, NYRB Classics publishes Beerbohm's Seven Men, a short-story collection. Phillip Lopate is the author of the essay collections Against Joie de Vivre, Bachelorhood, Being with Children, Portrait of My Body, and Totally, Tenderly, Tragically; and of the novels The Rug Merchant and Confessions of a Summer. His most recent books are Portrait Inside My Head and To Show and to Tell.
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