Questions tagged [max-beerbohm]
Questions related to the English essayist, parodist and caricaturist Henry Maximilian "Max" Beerbohm (1872 – 1956) and his work.
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Vision of the future in Max Beerbohm's "Enoch Soames"
Max Beerbohm's 1916 novelette "Enoch Soames" (available e.g. at Project Gutenberg) is the story of a man who sells his soul to the devil for the privilege of spending an afternoon in a library (the ...
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What was Max Beerbohm's literary relationship to Dostoevsky?
I'm currently reading Max Beerbohm's Zuleika Dobson.
When the Duke suddenly pours out his soul to Zuleika, his regrets and love so exaggerated that readers can't help but cringe and laugh, I thought ...
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