The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays
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...
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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 w
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Format: Paperback
ISBN:
9781590178287 (1590178289)
Publisher: NYRB Classics
Pages no: 391
Edition language: English
Late 19th/early 20th century humorist's essays holds up over time, and are still pretty funny more than a century after they were written.