Max Beerbohm (1872–1956)
Autor von Suleika Dobson. Eine Liebesgeschichte aus Oxford
Über den Autor
Henry Maximilian Beerbohm was born in England in 1872. In his twenties, Beerbohm became part of the literary circle of Oscar Wilde, and in 1898 he became the drama critic for the Saturday Review. His predecessor George Bernard Shaw recommended Beerbohm for this position supposedly because of mehr anzeigen Beerbohm's attacks on Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant, one of Shaw's own works. It was also Shaw who gave Beerbohm the nickname The Incomparable Max. Beerbohm was known primarily for his sharp wit, often expressed in parody and satire, His first book The Works of Max Beerbohm was a collection of essays in a mock-scholarly format. Other essay collections include Yet Again, And Even Now, Around Theatres, and Mainly on the Air, which was based on a series of radio broadcasts. His fiction includes one novel titled Zuleika Dobson: An Oxford Love Story and numerous short stories. Many of his short stories have been published in such collections as The Happy Hypocrite, Seven Men, and A Variety of Things. Beerbohm's flair for humor and parody was carried over into his art. He was a gifted caricaturist and was as well known for his drawings as for his writing. His drawings have been published in the collections Caricatures of Twenty-five Gentlemen, The Second Childhood of John Bull, A Book of Caricatures, Fifty Caricatures, Rosetti and His Circle, and Things Old and New. Beerbohm resigned from the Saturday Review in 1910 when he married Florence Kahn, an American actress, and they retired to Rapallo, Italy. The Beerbohms returned to England for several years during World War II, but in 1947 they returned to Rapallo where Beerbohm died in 1956. Beerbohm was knighted in 1939. (Bowker Author Biography) weniger anzeigen
Hinweis zur Begriffsklärung:
(eng) 1. Max Beerbohm, poet and author.
2. Max Beerbohm, 'Bootstrap 4'
Bildnachweis: Photo by Alvin Langdon Coburn, Jan. 15, 1908, London
Courtesy of the NYPL Digital Gallery
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Courtesy of the NYPL Digital Gallery
(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Werke von Max Beerbohm
Max and Will: Max Beerbohm and William Rothenstein: Their Friendship and Letters, 1893-1945 (1975) 12 Exemplare
Dandys & [und] Dandys : ausgesuchte Essays und Erzählungen Max Beerbohm. Hrsg. u. übers. von Eike… (1989) 7 Exemplare
Caricatures of twenty-five gentlemen 3 Exemplare
The Mote in the Middle Distance 2 Exemplare
Meditations of a refugee 2 Exemplare
Ten Years Ago ... [short fiction] 2 Exemplare
Bernard Shaw & Max Beerbohm at Covent Garden 2 Exemplare
Max Beerbohm and Arthur Conan Doyle 1 Exemplar
Six Stories 1 Exemplar
Max Beerbohm and H. Crouch Batchelor 1 Exemplar
The poet and his books 1 Exemplar
AROUND THEATRES, Volume ii 1 Exemplar
L'ipocrita felice e altri racconti 1 Exemplar
Selection from Around Theatres 1 Exemplar
Around Theatres Vol. 1 1 Exemplar
Hilary Maltby and Stephen Braxton 1 Exemplar
'Savonarola' Brown 1 Exemplar
La Reliqia (Racconto) 1 Exemplar
Zugehörige Werke
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Mitwirkender, einige Ausgaben — 929 Exemplare
Aesthetes and Decadents of the 1890s: An Anthology of British Poetry and Prose (1981) — Mitwirkender — 175 Exemplare
The Golden Argosy: A Collection of the Most Celebrated Short Stories in the English Language (1947) — Mitwirkender — 137 Exemplare
The Dedalus Book Of English Decadence: Vile Emperors And Elegant Degenerates (Decadence from Dedalus) (2004) — Mitwirkender — 52 Exemplare
Homefront Horrors: Frights Away from the Front Lines, 1914-1918 (2016) — Mitwirkender — 15 Exemplare
The New Forget-Ne-Not : A Calendar — Mitwirkender — 3 Exemplare
About Time: The Forerunners of Time Travel and Temporal Anomalies in Science Fiction and Fantasy (2008) — Mitwirkender — 2 Exemplare
The Uncertain Element: An Anthology of Fantastic Conceptions — Mitwirkender — 1 Exemplar
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- Gebräuchlichste Namensform
- Beerbohm, Max
- Rechtmäßiger Name
- Beerbohm, Henry Maximilian
- Geburtstag
- 1872-08-24
- Todestag
- 1956-05-20
- Begräbnisort
- St. Paul's Cathedral, London, England, UK
- Geschlecht
- male
- Nationalität
- UK
- Geburtsort
- London, England, UK
- Sterbeort
- Rapallo, Italy
- Wohnorte
- London, England, UK(birth)
Rapallo, Italy - Ausbildung
- Oxford University (Merton College)
Charterhouse School - Berufe
- parodist
caricaturist
novelist
essayist - Beziehungen
- Beerbohm Tree, Herbert (half-brother)
- Organisationen
- Abinger Chronicle (editor)
- Preise und Auszeichnungen
- Knight Bachelor (1939)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Foreign Honorary ∙ Literature ∙ 1943) - Hinweis zur Identitätsklärung
- 1. Max Beerbohm, poet and author.
2. Max Beerbohm, 'Bootstrap 4'
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Zuleika Dobson von Max Beerbohm
Quitting at 18%. I find the strange writing style with constantly inverted word order annoying, the tone irritating and the 'plot' slow to develop.
He's an engaging, albeit dated prose stylist, and he can be very amusing. But this book proceeds to it's conclusion, and then kind of meanders around for several more chapters. There are odd bits of business, like the ghosts of George Sand and Chopin dropping in on a central character's piano recital. Actually ghosts abound in this book. If you like Wodehouse you'll find things to like here, but it's reputation as a timeless classic is a little much.
Maybe even 4½ stars... This satire of undergraduate behavior is still hilarious over 100 years after it was written! The basic story is about how the young men of Oxford react when Zuleika Dobson, the beautiful niece of the college Warden, arrives in their midst.
2.5*
These short Christmas stories are well written but not what I had been wanting to read. I was looking for holiday cheer and/or sentiment; these are essentially parodies of various authors' writing styles. For those authors that I was familiar with (Kipling & Galsworthy to name two), the parodies were extremely apt. I would consider rereading this sometime when I am in a different mood (& now that I know what to expect).
These short Christmas stories are well written but not what I had been wanting to read. I was looking for holiday cheer and/or sentiment; these are essentially parodies of various authors' writing styles. For those authors that I was familiar with (Kipling & Galsworthy to name two), the parodies were extremely apt. I would consider rereading this sometime when I am in a different mood (& now that I know what to expect).
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