Screen LibrarySeven men /
"In Seven Men the English caricaturist and critic Max Beerbohm turns his comic searchlight upon the fantastic fin de siecle world of the 1890s - the age of Oscar Wilde, Aubrey Beardsley, and the young Yeats, as well as of Beerbohm's own first success. In a series of luminous prose sketches...
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New York Review Books,
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| Publisher Address: | New York : |
| Publication Dates: | [2000] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York Review Books classics
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| Summary: |
"In Seven Men the English caricaturist and critic Max Beerbohm turns his comic searchlight upon the fantastic fin de siecle world of the 1890s - the age of Oscar Wilde, Aubrey Beardsley, and the young Yeats, as well as of Beerbohm's own first success. In a series of luminous prose sketches, Beerbohm captures the likes of Enoch Soames, only begetter of the neglected poetic masterwork Fungoids; Maltby and Braxton, two fashionable novelists caught in a bitter rivalry; and "Savonarola" Brown, author of a truly incredible tragedy encompassing the entire Italian Renaissance. An ingenious and enduring work of humorous writing, Seven Men is also a shrewdly perceptive, heartfelt homage to the eccentric character of a bygone age."--Jacket. |
| Carrier Form: | xiii, 208 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780940322547 (paperback) : 0940322544 (paperback) |
| Index Number: | PR6003 |
| CLC: | I561.45 |
| Call Number: | I561.45/B415 |
| Contents: |
Enoch Soames -- Hilary Maltby and Stephen Braxton -- James Pethel -- A.V. Laider -- "Savonarola" Brown. |