Max Beerbohm: 42 books

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Classic collection of essays, first published in 1920. According to Wikipedia: 'Sir Henry Maximilian "Max" Beerbohm (August 24, 1872 May 20, 1956) was an English essayist, parodist and caricaturist best known today for his 1911 novel Zuleika Dobson."

Collection of humorous essays, first published in 1909. According to Wikipedia: "Sir Henry Maximilian "Max" Beerbohm (August 24, 1872 May 20, 1956) was an English essayist, parodist and caricaturist best known today for his 1911 novel Zuleika Dobson."

This entertaining collection of short stories contains six shorts—biographies of fictional characters, with Beerbohm himself as the seventh man with whom the others interact. One of the most popular stories in the collection is “Enoch Soames,” the tale of a poet who makes a deal with the devil to find out how he will be remembered.

Beerbohm's first and only novel, published in 1911, is a wicked satire of undergraduate life at Oxford in which the beautiful heroine, or anti-heroine, Zuleika, leaves a trail of corpses behind as she makes her aloof but devastating way through the all-male bastion of patriarchal privilege.

A Chistmas Garland is a collection of 17 classic short stories written by Max Berrbohm and first published in 1912. Parodies with a Christmas theme of some of the most renowned authors of the period including Kipling, Henry James, Thomas Hardy, H.G. Wells and Conrad.

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This 1899 collection of humorous sketches includes “Some Words on Royalty,” “Actors,” “Madame Tussaud’s,” “Pretending,” “An Infamous Brigade,” “The Sea-Side in Winter,” “Sign-Boards,” “The Blight on the Music Halls,” “Prangley Valley,” “Fashion and Her Bicycle,”...

This 1909 collection of humorous sketches includes “The Fire,” “Seeing People Off,” “A Club in Ruins,” “A Study in Dejection,” “A Pathetic Imposture,” “The Decline of the Graces,” “Whistler’s Writing,” “A Morris for May-Day,” “The House of Commons Manner,” “The...

It was with the sense of a, for him, very memorable something that he peered now into the immediate future, and tried, not without compunction, to take that period up where he had, prospectively, left it. But just where the deuce had he left it? The consciousness of dubiety was, for our friend, not,...

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Excerpt from Book: I was shocked this morning when I saw in my newspaper a paragraph announcing his sudden death. I do not say that the shock was very disagreeable. One reads a newspaper for the sake of news. Had I never met James Pethel, belike I should never have heard of him: and my knowledge of...

A. V. Laider Originally published in the collection, Seven Men, A. V. Laider is a short story about a palmist who foretells the death of four people riding on a train - or does he? This short story is largely an exercise in conversational wit while embedding a deeper question about the basic...