Max Beerbohm Books In Order

Zuleika Dobson

Zuleika Dobson is a highly accomplished and superbly written book whose spirit is farcical,’ said E. M. Forster. ‘It is a great work the most consistent achievement of fantasy in our time…

so funny and charming, so iridescent yet so profound.’
Originally published in 1911, Max Beerbohm’s sparklingly wicked satire concerns the unlikely events that occur when a femme fatale briefly enters the supremely privileged, all male domain of Judas Col
lege, Oxford. A conjurer by profession, Zuleika Dobson can only love a man who is impervious to her considerable charms: a circumstance that proves fatal, as any number of love smitten suitors are driven to suicide by the damsel’s rejection. Laced with memorable one liners ‘Death cancels all engagements,’ utters the first casualty and inspired throughout by Beerbohm’s rococo imagination, this lyrical evocation of Edwardian undergraduate life at Oxford has, according to Forster, ‘a beauty unattainable by serious literature.’
‘I read Zuleika Dobson with pleasure,’ recalled Bertrand Russell. ‘It represents the Oxford that the two World Wars have destroyed with a charm that is not likely to be reproduced anywhere in the world for the next thousand years.’

Seven Men

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million books. com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: HILARY MALTBY AND STEPHEN BRAXTON PEOPLE still go on comparing Thackeray and Dickens, quite cheerfully. But the fashion of comparing Maltby and Braxton went out so long ago as 1795. No, I am wrong. But anything that happened in the bland old days before the war does seem to be a hundred more years ago than actually it is. The year I mean is the one in whose spring time we all went bicycling O thrill! in Battersea Park, and ladies wore sleeves that billowed enormously out from their shoulders, and Lord Rosebery was Prime Minister. In that Park, in that spring time, in that sea of sleeves, there was almost as much talk about the respective merits of Braxton and Maltby as there was about those of Rudge and Humber. For the benefit of my younger readers, and perhaps, so feeble is human memory, for the benefit of their elders too, let me state that Rudge and Humber were rival makers of bicycles, that Hilary Maltby was the author of ‘Ariel in Mayfair,’ and Stephen Braxton of ‘A Faun on the Cotswolds.’ ‘Which do you think is really the best ‘Ariel’ or ‘A Faun’?’ Ladies were always asking one that question. ‘Oh, well, you know, the two are so different. It’s really very hard to comparethem.’ One was always giving that answer. One was not very brilliant perhaps. The vogue of the two novels lasted throughout the summer. As both were ‘firstlings,’ and Great Britain had therefore nothing else of Braxton’s or Maltby’s to fall back on, the horizon was much scanned for what Maltby, and what Braxton, would give us next. In the autumn Braxton gave us his secondling. It was an instantaneous failure. No more was he compared with Maltby. In the spring of ’96 came Maltby’s secondling. Its failure was instantaneous. Maltby might once more have been compared with Braxton. But Braxton was no…

And Even Now

Max Beerbohm 1872 1956 was a British caricaturist and parodist. As a young man he was considered quite the wit and spent much time in London society. By 35 he was middle aged and a bit dull. Beerbohm was drama critic for the Saturday Review and later did broadcast radio work. This collection of essays includes A Relic, How Shall I word It?, Mobled King, Kolniyatch, No 2 The Pines, A Letter That was not Written, Books within Books, The Golden Drugget, Hosts and Guests, A Point to be Remembered, Servants, Going Out for a Walk, Quia Inperfectum, Something Defeasible, A Clergyman, The Crime, In Home Unblest, William and Mary, On Speaking French,and Laughter.

The Happy Hypocrite

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A Christmas Garland

Sir Henry Maximilian Beerbohm 1872 1956 was an English parodist and caricaturist. His first book, The Works of Max Beerbohm, was published in 1896. Having been interviewed by George Bernard Shaw himself, in 1898 he followed Shaw as drama critic for the Saturday Review, on whose staff he remained until 1910. From 1935 onwards, he was an occasional radio broadcaster, talking about cars and carriages and music halls for the BBC. His wit is shown often enough in his caricatures but his letters contain a carefully blended humour a gentle admonishing of the excesses of the day whilst remaining firmly tongue in cheek. Beerbohm’s best known works are: Yet Again 1909, A Christmas Garland 1912, a parody of literary styles, and Seven Men 1919, which includes Enoch Soames, the tale of a poet who makes a deal with the devil to find out how posterity will remember him. In 1911 he wrote Zuleika Dobson, or, An Oxford Love Story, his only novel. He also wrote And Even Now 1920.

Yet Again

Purchase one of 1st World Library’s Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www. 1stWorldLibrary. ORG If I were seeing over’ a house, and found in every room an iron cage let into the wall, and were told by the caretaker that these cages were for me to keep lions in, I think I should open my eyes rather wide. Yet nothing seems to me more natural than a fire in the grate. oubtless, when I began to walk, one of my first excursions was to the fender, that I might gaze more nearly at the live thing roaring and raging behind it; and I dare say I dimly wondered by what blessed dispensation this creature was allowed in a domain so peaceful as my nursery. I do not think I ever needed to be warned against scaling the fender. I knew by instinct that the creature within it was dangerous fiercer still than the cat which had once strayed into the room and scratched me for my advances. As I grew older, I ceased to wonder at the creature’s presence and learned to call it the fire,’ quite lightly. There are so many queer things in the world that we have no time to go on wondering at the queerness of the things we see habitually. It is not that these things are in themselves less queer than they at first seemed to us. It is that our vision of them has been dimmed.

Seven Men and Two Others

The tales that make up Seven Men and Two Others start out as a set of ‘faux’ memoirs set amid London literary life in the precious fin de si cle era and proceed into deliciously absurd fantasy. With a sense of fun, a hint of nostalgia, razor sharp satire, and pitch perfect parody, Beerbohm tugs at the affected nature of the whole literary scene lamentable authors, wily agents, and preposterous weekend salons.

Observations

A collection of the noted wit’s most acerbic caricatures, slicing to ribbons the great ones and those with pretentions to greatness. His cartoons and captions put Beerbohm’s contemporaries in better perspective for today’s reader. ILLUS.

Letters of Max Beerbohm, 1892-1956

This selection from Max Beerbohm’s correspondence includes the drawings with which he illustrated his letters. The text includes extracts from letters to Bernard Shaw, Lytton Strachey, Arnold Bennett, Edmund Gosse and many others. Rupert Hart Davis has also edited ‘Max Beerbohm: Letters to Reggie Turner’, ‘A Catalogue of the Caricatures of Max Beerbohm’ and ‘Siegfried Sassoon’s Letters to Max Beerbohm’.