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Perfection at a price.(Book Review)
N. John Hall Max Beerbohm: A Kind of Life. Yale University Press, 284 pages, $24.95
Ten years ago N. John Hall published his first biography, a life of Anthony Trollope. Now he has brought out a biography of Max Beerbohm. At first sight the contrast is a piquant one. On the one hand, the prolific commonsensical novelist, on the other the exquisite caricaturist and wit. It looks like switching from beef and pudding to caviar.
In fact the gap between the two men is not as wide as their respective reputations suggest. There was a robust, even conventional side to Beerbohm. His reaction to the First World War, for example, was staunchly patriotic; he loved ...
- Max Beerbohm: Caricatures.
- Magazine article from: The New Leader Lamb, Richard December 1, 1997 700+ words
Max Beerbohm as drawn by himself was a round-headed...cane. It was in this dandyish guise that Beerbohm burst upon the London scene shortly after...picture of Dorian Gray. Late in life Beerbohm said, As Oscar became more and more successful...
- Reading the deadly text of modernism: Vico's philosophy of history and Max...
- Magazine article from: CLIO Bonaparte, Felicia March 22, 1998 700+ words
...connection of this kind -- between Max Beerbohm, the English humorist, and the...Certainly, a Vichian reading of Beerbohm's novel Zuleika Dobson opens...connection does exist. Generally, Beerbohm is not taken to be a philosophical...
- Max Beerbohm: A Kind of a Life.(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: Biography Schwarts, Stanford March 22, 2003 700+ words
...John Hall. New Haven: Yale UP, 2002. 284 pp. $24.95 "In Hall, a professor of English at City University, Beerbohm has been put in the hands of someone who clearly has had a long and intimate familiarity with his man and who has done...
- Max Beerbohm
- Picture from: NYPL Digital Gallery unknown January 1, 1934 700+ words
- Max Beerbohm: the aesthete before the Internet.
- Magazine article from: Contemporary Review Ramsay, Allan December 22, 2007 700+ words
ACCORDING to a recent French study we--all of us--do everything much faster than our ancestors did. We not only travel faster, more frequently and generally further, but walk, talk, shop and eat more quickly. Participation is everything and the 'instant' has become the norm. Social groups form,
- Max Beerbohm, London, January 15th, 1908.
- Picture from: NYPL Digital Gallery Coburn, Alvin Langdon,1882-1966--Photographer January 1, 1934 700+ words
- The Academy, 3 December, 1898 : Mr. William Archer, as seen by Mr. Max Beerbohm.
- Picture from: NYPL Digital Gallery unknown January 1, 1934 700+ words
- A LIVELY SET OF BEERBOHM'S LETTERS
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe Robert Taylor, Globe Staff May 9, 1989 700+ words
LETTERS OF MAX BEERBOHM, 1892-1956, edited by Rupert Hart...and so on, and so forth." Only Max Beerbohm could so effortlessly sport that epistolary...17:17 TUESBUK0 Caption: DRAWING Max Beerbohm (in a self-caricature ca. 1890...
Source: HighBeam Research, Perfection at a price.(Book Review)