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A translation of an 1830s Russian novel, written in verse. The hero is Eugene, a bored young man who courts Tatyana, the heroine, and when she falls in love rejects her. But he will pay for it.

Max Beerbohm was widely celebrated as the wittiest mind of his age. He became famous in the mid-1890s and remained so until his death in 1956. His wit manifested itself in both prose and caricature, and his writings and drawings are keenly interesting. Max's life, however, was relatively uneventful, and of interest, he said, only to himself. John Hall moves quickly through Max's history: schoolboy; college undergraduate; London caricaturist, journalist,...

Portrait of a caricaturist, novelist, essayist and critic. "Originated in the New Yorker as a series of articles."

This is a celebration of men and fashion throughout the ages in which the author charts the male's stylish and self-confident course through history, from the medieval knights, to the hippies and punks of the 20th-century. Reference is made to the influences on male fashion and the designers.

Domna Stanton discusses self-fashioning among French aristocrats in the seventeenth century.