The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm by Beerbohm, Max

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The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm by Beerbohm, Max

The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm

$18.95
The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm by Beerbohm, Max

The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm

$18.95
Format: Paperback
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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."

Author: Max Beerbohm
ISBN-10: 1590178289
ISBN-13: 9781590178287
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Language: English
Published: 06/02/2015
Pages: 432
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 03/15/2015
Publishers Weekly 04/13/2015
New Yorker (The) 08/03/2015 pg. 73
By Max Beerbohm
By Max Beerbohm
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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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