{"product_id":"seven-men-isbn-9780940322547","title":"Seven Men","description":"In \u003ci\u003eSeven Men\u003c\/i\u003e the brilliant English caricaturist and critic Max Beerbohm turns his comic searchlight upon the fantastic fin-de-siècle 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 of a truly incredible tragedy encompassing the entire Italian Renaissance. One of the masterpieces of modern humorous writing, \u003ci\u003eSeven Men\u003c\/i\u003e is also a shrewdly perceptive, heartfelt homage to the wonderfully eccentric character of a bygone age.\"Don’t miss the arch-decadent Enoch Soames and the fortunetelling A.V. Laider.\" —Michael Dirda, \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, List of 66 Favorite Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"As a parodist, he is probably the finest in English.\" —W.H. Auden \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\"The most faultless of my contemporaries...I prefer \u003ci\u003eSeven Men\u003c\/i\u003e to all his other books.\" —Bertrand Russell \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Not  even a good comedy is so rare as genuine satire, and when an example of  the latter is produced some indulgence in superlatives may be excused.  In the case of [\u003ci\u003eSeven Men\u003c\/i\u003e] it is difficult to restrain praise within the bounds of judgment, for its beneficent, limpid ridicule is an undiluted joy.\" —\u003ci\u003eThe Spectator\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eSir Henry Maximilian Beerbohm\u003c\/b\u003e (1872-1956) was born in London and studied  at Oxford. He published his first collection of essays, entitled \u003ci\u003eThe Works of Max Beerbohm,\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Updike \u003c\/b\u003e(1932–2009) was born in Shillington, Pennsylvania. In 1954 he began to publish in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e,  where he continued to contribute short stories, poems, and criticism  until his death. His major work was the set of four novels chronicling  the life of Harry “Rabbit: Angstrom, he two of which, \u003ci\u003eRabbit is Rich\u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eRabbit at Rest\u003c\/i\u003e, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. His last books were the novel \u003ci\u003eThe Widows of Eastwick\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDue Considerations\u003c\/i\u003e, a collection of his essays and criticism.","brand":"NYRB Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303682330853,"sku":"NP9780940322547","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780940322547.jpg?v=1767736387","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/seven-men-isbn-9780940322547","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}