In
Seven Men the brilliant English caricaturist and critic Max Beerbohm
turned his comic searchlight upon the fantastic fin-de-siecle world of the
1890s--the 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 a truly
incredible tragedy encompassing the entire Italian Renaissance. One of the
masterpieces of modern humorous writing, Seven Men is also a shrewdly
perceptive but also heartfelt homage to the wonderfully eccentric character
of a bygone age.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:Sir Henry Maximilian Beerbohm (1872-1956) was born in London and studied at
Oxford. He published his first collection of essays, entitled The Works of
Max Beerbohm, in 1896 and soon established a reputation as a brilliant
caricaturist and critic. He was married to the American actress Florence
Kahn and lived in Rapallo, Italy, for most of his life.
