Seven Men (New York Review Books Classics)

by Sir Max Beerbohm

Professor John Updike (Introduction) and John Updike (Introduction)

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In Seven Men the brilliant English caricaturist and critic Max Beerbohm turns his comic searchlight upon the fantastic fin-de-siècle world of the 1890s—the age of Oscar Wilde, Aubrey Beardsley, and the young Yeats, as well of Beerbohm's own first success. In a series of luminous sketches, Beerbohm captures the likes of Enoch Soames, only begetter of the neglected poetic masterwork Fungoids; Maltby and Braxton, two fashionable novelists caught in a bitter rivalry; and "Savonarola" Brown, author of a truly incredible tragedy encompassing the entire Italian Renaissance. One of the masterpieces of modern humorous writing, Seven Men is also a shrewdly perceptive, heartfelt homage to the wonderfully eccentric character of a bygone age.
  • ISBN10 0940322544
  • ISBN13 9780940322547
  • Publish Date 31 October 2000 (first published 1 August 2000)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint The New York Review of Books, Inc