Supermax
John Bayley, 8 December 1988
The Letters of Max Beerbohm 1892-1956
edited by Rupert Hart-Davis.
Murray, 244 pp., £16.95, August 1988,0 7195 4537 4 Show More
edited by Rupert Hart-Davis.
Murray, 244 pp., £16.95, August 1988,
The Faber Book of Letters
edited by Felix Pryor.
Faber, 319 pp., £12.95, October 1988,0 571 15269 4 Show More
edited by Felix Pryor.
Faber, 319 pp., £12.95, October 1988,
“... tried to get him better treated in prison. But his letters to their great mutual friend Reggie Turner suggest quite a different view of the trial from the one Ellmann presents. It was not a cathartic and humbling metamorphosis for the poor victim but a smart triumph quite in his usual style. ‘Oscar has been quite superb. His speech about the Love that ... ”