From its magnificent first sentence, "None, it is said, of all who
revelled with the Regent, was half so wicked as Lord George
Hell..." The Happy Hypocrite exerts a hypnotizing charm. Sir Max
Beerbohm's 'fairy tale for tired men' is one of the pinnacles of
1890s chic and elegance. His famously rich style, laced with equal
parts of tenderness and severity, serves up a story of love, and,
more importantly, what we will do for it. George Hell's life as a
Regency buck is turned upside down when Jenny Mere, a dancer,
arrives in his life. It only remains for him to live up to the pure
expectations of this lowly girl. Will he succeed, or will his old
wicked habits die hard? Will the world let him forget them? He
decides that certain extraordinary measures are necessary to
achieve this lofty aim, but never guesses just how much power his
love has - and is miraculously transformed. First published in
Volume XI of the legendary Yellow Book in 1896, this beautiful
fable crowned Beerbohm's reputation as a weaver of glorious fabrics
of prose. This edition reproduces George Sheringham's splendid
illustrations, first seen in the edition of 1915. Born in 1872, Max
Beerbohm was a regular contributor to magazines, a playwright, a
novelist and, crucially, an essayist and caricaturist. He married
Florence Kahn in 1910; they moved to Rapallo in Italy and stayed
there, apart from the periods of the two world wars, for the rest
of their lives. Knighted in 1939, Sir Max died in 1956.
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