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192 p. ; 22 cm

Broadcast talks and essays

Broadcast talks and essays

Book Source: Digital Library of India Item 2015.174767 dc.contributor.author: Max Beerbohm dc.contributor.other: Ccl dc.date.accessioned: 2015-07-07T04:06:27Z dc.date.available: 2015-07-07T04:06:27Z dc.date.digitalpublicationdate: 2021-07-03 dc.date.citation: 1946 dc.identifier.barcode: 2020120010432 dc.identifier.origpath: /data/upload/0010/437 dc.identifier.copyno: 1 dc.identifier.uri: http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/174767 dc.description.scanningcentre: City Central Library, Hyderabad dc.description.main: 1 dc.description.tagged: 0 dc.description.totalpages: 196 dc.format.mimetype: application/pdf dc.language.iso: English dc.publisher.digitalrepublisher: Par Informatics, Hyderabad dc.publisher: Heinemann dc.rights: Out_of_copyright dc.source.library: Scl dc.title: Mainly On The Air dc.rights.holder: Enter Name Of The Copyright Owner

Book Source: Digital Library of India Item 2015.174767 dc.contributor.author: Max Beerbohm dc.contributor.other: Ccl dc.date.accessioned: 2015-07-07T04:06:27Z dc.date.available: 2015-07-07T04:06:27Z dc.date.digitalpublicationdate: 2021-07-03 dc.date.citation: 1946 dc.identifier.barcode: 2020120010432 dc.identifier.origpath: /data/upload/0010/437 dc.identifier.copyno: 1 dc.identifier.uri: http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/174767 dc.description.scanningcentre: City Central Library, Hyderabad dc.description.main: 1 dc.description.tagged: 0 dc.description.totalpages: 196 dc.format.mimetype: application/pdf dc.language.iso: English dc.publisher.digitalrepublisher: Par Informatics, Hyderabad dc.publisher: Heinemann dc.rights: Out_of_copyright dc.source.library: Scl dc.title: Mainly On The Air dc.rights.holder: Enter Name Of The Copyright Owner

1Zuleika Dobson

By Max Beerbohm

A wickedly funny 1911 satire on undergraduate life in Edwardian Oxford' in which the entire student body of Oxford university including the young, handsome aristocrat the Duke of Dorset falls hopelessly in love with Zuleika who is visiting her grandfather, the warden of Judas college, and ultimately commit mass suicide at the end of 'Eights Week' (Summary by Andy Minter)

2Happy Hypocrite: A Fairy Tale For Tired Men

By Max Beerbohm

Sir Henry Maximilian "Max" Beerbohm was an English essayist, parodist, and caricaturist. <i>The Happy Hypocrite: A Fairy Tale for Tired Men</i> is a short story with moral implications. Beerbohm's tale is a lighter, more humorous version of Oscar Wilde's classic tale of moral degeneration, <i>The Picture of Dorian Gray</i>. <i>The Happy Hypocrite</i> tells the story of a man who deceives a woman with a mask in order to marry her. (Summary from Wikipedia)

3Seven Men

By Max Beerbohm

In order to liven up the literary history of Great Britain in the 1890s (as if Oscar Wilde, Stevenson, Kipling, Hardy, etc., were not lively enough) Max Beerbohm wrote short biographies of six imaginary writers. Though their works of course no longer exist, he leaves the impression that the literary world is really none the poorer. It is, of course, the six men themselves (Beerbohm himself is the seventh man of the title) who are worth our attention. ( Nicholas Clifford) </p> Note that the Gutenberg edition of Seven Men is incomplete, but the missing sections may be found separately James Pethel http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/759 E.V. Laider http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/761

4And Even Now

By Max Beerbohm

This is a diverse collection of essays by English writer Max Beerbohm, whose circle included such notables as Oscar Wilde, George Bernard Shaw, Ezra Pound, and Somerset Maugham. Much of Beerbohm's work was humorous, including parodies of various aspects of the upper class life into which he was born.<br><br> Some of these pieces are humorous, some philosophical, and some even sad. They include, for instance: a frankly self-critical piece on the pomposity and self-importance of his early literary ambitions; a half-eager, half-repining essay on a missing and uncompleted portrait of the great German writer, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; and a funny, but politically critical essay on "the servant question." (Summary by Kirsten Wever.)

5Yet Again

By Max Beerbohm

This is a diverse collection of essays by English writer Max Beerbohm, whose circle included such famous men as Oscar Wilde, George Bernard Shaw, Ezra Pound, and Somerset Maugham.<br /><br />The essays vary considerably in character and subject. They include, among others: a spoof on the bumbling and inarticulate nature of oratory in the House of Commons; a discussion of the writings of James Whistler, the impressionist painter (which Beerbohm considers widely neglected and under-rated); a humorous consideration of why the King of England should make a royal visit to Switzerland; and a description of the delights of frequent attendance at British courts of justice.<br /><br />The author was among England's best known artists; Section Twenty-Two contains humorous (as well as critical) discussions of nine works of art, including paintings by Reubens, Corot, and Bellini. - Summary by Kirsten Wever