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...

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...

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...

A devastatingly attractive young woman of the Edwardian era Zuleika Dobson, a true femme fatale, something of a small-time celebrity, manages to gain entrance to the privileged,...