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001 2014040971
003 DLC
005 20151209075314.0
008 141107s2015 nyu 000 e eng
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020 $a9781590178287 (paperback)
020 $z9781590178294 (electronic book)
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042 $apcc
050 00 $aPR6003.E4$bA6 2015
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100 1 $aBeerbohm, Max,$cSir,$d1872-1956,$eauthor.
240 10 $aEssays.$kSelections
245 14 $aThe prince of minor writers :$bthe selected essays of Max Beerbohm /$cEdited and with an introduction by Phillip Lopate.
264 1 $aNew York :$bNew York Review Books,$c[2015]
300 $axxix, 391 pages ;$c21 cm.
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
490 0 $aNew York Review Books Classics
520 $a"Called by Virginia Woolf "the prince" of essayists and praised by F. W. Dupee for a "whim of iron, cleverness amounting to genius," Max Beerbohm himself noted that "only the insane take themselves quite seriously." Nonetheless, from his precocious debut as a dandy in 1890s Oxford until, after World War II, when he put the pen aside, Beerbohm was recognized as an incomparable observer of modern life and an essayist whose voice was always and only his own. Here Phillip Lopate, one of the finest essayists of our day, has selected the finest of Beerbohm's essays. Whether writing about the vogue for Russian writers, laughter and philosophy, dandies, or George Bernard Shaw, Beerbohm is as unpredictable as he is unfailingly witty and wise. As Lopate writes, "Today...it becomes all the more necessary to ponder how Beerbohm performed the delicate operation of displaying so much personality without lapsing into sticky confession.""--$cProvided by publisher.
650 7 $aLITERARY CRITICISM / General.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aLITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aHUMOR / Form / Essays.$2bisacsh
700 1 $aLopate, Phillip,$d1943-$eeditor.
776 08 $iOnline version:$aBeerbohm, Max, Sir, 1872-1956.$tPrince of minor writers$dNew York : New York Review Books, 2015$z9781590178294$w(DLC) 2014044254
856 42 $3Cover image$u9781590178287.jpg