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(0)Max Beerbohm
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This satirical novel of life and love at Oxford University is one of the Modern Library's 100 Best Novels Max Beerbohm's only novel is a comic masterpiece set in the privileged environs of Judas College, Oxford. When beautiful prestidigitator Zuleika Dobson gains admittance to the all-male campus, romance is suddenly in the air. But the smitten undergraduates are out of luck, because this femme fatale can only love a man unaffected by her charms....
2) And Even Now
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I offer here some of the essays that I have written in the course of the past ten years. While I was collecting them and (quite patiently) reading them again, I found that a few of them were in direct reference to the moments at which they were severally composed. It was clear that these must have their dates affixed to them. And for sake of uniformity I have dated all the others, and, doing so, have thought I need not exclude all such topical remarks...
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George Hell is a shallow man, fond of gambling, drinking, and womanizing. Set in his socialite ways, George does whatever it takes to satisfy his desires. However, when cupid strikes George with his arrow, his lavish life is thrown into disarray. Now head over heels for a young dancer named Jenny, George immediately proposes to her, confident that no woman can resist him. But, after Jenny rejects George, claiming that she would only marry a man with...
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Lord George Hell, a worldly man, he is a dandy, fond of gambling, drinking, womanizing, and the like. He is enjoying lavish outdoor entertainment in London with his lover, La Gambogi, when a young and innocent dancer named Jenny Mere performs on the stage. A dwarf sitting with Lord George, revealed to be Cupid, shoots his arrow into Lord George's breast.
5) Enoch Soames
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Enoch Soames es un poeta decadentista tan mediocre como pedante, autor de tres obras que, muy a su pesar, no le han procurado fama ni prestigio alguno. Convencido de ser un escritor de talento injustamente ignorado, sueña con el reconocimiento que, quizá, reciba de manera póstuma. Un día, mientras cena en el Soho londinense con Beerbohm, el involuntario testigo de sus desgracias, un personaje con pinta de pendenciero que afirma ser el diablo le...
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A collection of Beerbohm's essays from the 1890s written while he was still a student at Oxford. The book launched Beerbohm's career as an essayist. Replete with mock-scholarly footnotes and biographical information, The Works epitomizes Beerbohm's penchant for deflating pretentiousness with satiric imitation.