| The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm Contributor(s): Beerbohm, Max (Author), Lopate, Phillip (Introduction by), Lopate, Phillip (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1590178289 ISBN-13: 9781590178287 Publisher: New York Review of Books OUR PRICE: $17.06 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Humor | Form - Essays - Literary Collections | Essays |
| Dewey: 824.912 |
| LCCN: 2014040971 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5" W x 8" (0.90 lbs) 432 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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." |