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The prince of minor writers : the selected essays of Max Beerbohm

Title
  1. The prince of minor writers : the selected essays of Max Beerbohm / edited and with an introduction by Phillip Lopate.
Published by
  1. New York : New York Review Books, [2015]
Author
  1. Beerbohm, Max, Sir, 1872-1956.

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Additional authors
  1. Lopate, Phillip, 1943-
Description
  1. xxix, 391 pages; 21 cm.
Summary
  1. "Called by Virginia Woolf "the prince" of essayists and praised by F. W. Dupee for a "whim of iron, cleverness amounting to genius," Max Beerbohm himself noted that "only the insane take themselves quite seriously." Nonetheless, from his precocious debut as a dandy in 1890s Oxford, until after World War II, when he put the pen aside, 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.""--
Series statement
  1. New York Review Books classics
Uniform title
  1. Essays. Selections
  2. New York Review Books classics.
Alternative title
  1. Essays.
Subject
  1. LITERARY CRITICISM / General
  2. LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
  3. HUMOR / Form / Essays
Call number
  1. JFD 15-2154
Author
  1. Beerbohm, Max, Sir, 1872-1956.
Title
  1. The prince of minor writers : the selected essays of Max Beerbohm / edited and with an introduction by Phillip Lopate.
Publisher
  1. New York : New York Review Books, [2015]
Type of content
  1. text
Type of medium
  1. unmediated
Type of carrier
  1. volume
Series
  1. New York Review Books classics
  2. New York Review Books classics.
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Added author
  1. Lopate, Phillip, 1943- editor.
Other form:
  1. Online version: Beerbohm, Max, Sir, 1872-1956. Prince of minor writers New York : New York Review Books, 2015 9781590178294 (DLC) 2014044254
LCCN
  1. 2014040971
ISBN
  1. 9781590178287 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
  2. 1590178289 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
Research call number
  1. JFD 15-2154
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