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- ISBN: 9780940322547 | 0940322544
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 10/31/2000
InSeven Menthe brilliant English caricaturist and critic Max Beerbohm turns his comic searchlight upon the fantastic fin-de-siecle world of the 1890sthe 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 Menis also a shrewdly perceptive, heartfelt homage to the wonderfully eccentric character of a bygone age.