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ⓘ About Max Beerbohm
Max Beerbohm is a short fiction writer, essayist, critic, and caricaturist that has been called one of the leading satirists of the Edwardian era in England. Growing up, he was a sophisticated kid that drank champagne when he turned ten and regularly read “Punch” magazine. While he was a student at the Surrey-based Charterhouse School, he used to amuse classmates and masters with prose parodies and irreverent caricatures. At eighteen years old, he enrolled at Oxford’s Merton Colee, where he fast gained a reputation as a dandy and aesthete. He used to be a good-humored and modest boy and he believes it was the college that made him insufferable. His reputation soon spread to London and he was soon in the literary circles of Oscar Wilde.
All Book Series by Max Beerbohm
Caricatures of Twenty-Five Gentlemen
Series opener · book 1 of 23 · published 1896
Letters of Max Beerbohm, 1892-1956
Latest in the series · book 9 of 9 · published 1988
Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror
Book 2 of 6 · published 1931
? Frequently Asked Questions
Who is Max Beerbohm?
Max Beerbohm is a short fiction writer, essayist, critic, and caricaturist that has been called one of the leading satirists of the Edwardian era in England. Growing up, he was a sophisticated kid that drank champagne when he turned ten and regularly read “Punch” magazine. While he was a student at the Surrey-based Charterhouse School, he used to amuse classmates and masters with prose parodies and irreverent caricatures.
Which Max Beerbohm series should I start with?
Max Beerbohm's books stand alone rather than forming a numbered series, so there is no reading order to follow. The natural first pick is Yet Again (1909).
How many books has Max Beerbohm written?
Max Beerbohm has 51 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1896 and 2018. They are filed under 5 categories rather than in numbered series — chiefly Collections, Non-Fiction and Standalone Novels.
In what order should Max Beerbohm's series be read?
No reading order is needed: none of the 51 books catalogued here do not form a numbered series, so any title can be picked up first. Within each category they are listed by publication year.
How are Max Beerbohm's books organised into series?
This guide splits Max Beerbohm's 51 books into categories rather than numbered series: Collections (23 books); Non-Fiction (9 books); Standalone Novels (7 books); Short Stories/Novellas (6 books); Anthologies (6 books).