Max: A Biography
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A landmark work of literary biography, Max: A Biography chronicles the life of Sir Max Beerbohm, the celebrated English essayist, caricaturist, and wit who reigned as one of the most distinctive voices of the Edwardian era. David Cecil presents his subject with warmth and scholarly precision, capturing Beerbohm's elegant detachment, his razor-sharp humor, and his deliberate retreat from the frenetic pace of modern life into a serene Italian exile. The biography illuminates the rich cultural world Beerbohm inhabited — from the glittering salons of 1890s London to his long, contented years in Rapallo — and details his friendships with luminaries such as Oscar Wilde, Henry James, and George Bernard Shaw. Cecil writes with a graceful, unhurried prose style that perfectly mirrors his subject's own sensibility, making this portrait as pleasurable to read as Beerbohm's own celebrated essays. The result is an authoritative and deeply affectionate account of a man who turned the art of civilized living into a supreme aesthetic achievement.
Author: David Cecil
Format: Paperback
Published: 1964, Constable London
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
A landmark work of literary biography, Max: A Biography chronicles the life of Sir Max Beerbohm, the celebrated English essayist, caricaturist, and wit who reigned as one of the most distinctive voices of the Edwardian era. David Cecil presents his subject with warmth and scholarly precision, capturing Beerbohm's elegant detachment, his razor-sharp humor, and his deliberate retreat from the frenetic pace of modern life into a serene Italian exile. The biography illuminates the rich cultural world Beerbohm inhabited — from the glittering salons of 1890s London to his long, contented years in Rapallo — and details his friendships with luminaries such as Oscar Wilde, Henry James, and George Bernard Shaw. Cecil writes with a graceful, unhurried prose style that perfectly mirrors his subject's own sensibility, making this portrait as pleasurable to read as Beerbohm's own celebrated essays. The result is an authoritative and deeply affectionate account of a man who turned the art of civilized living into a supreme aesthetic achievement.