The Porpoise and the Otter: The Literary Friendship of Max Beerbohm and G.K. Chesterton

By William Blissett

Book Overview

In William Blissett's masterful study The Porpoise and the Otter, we encounter dapper, choosy Max Beerbohm (1872-1956) and the massive untidy G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936), together again in the great age of verbal parody, penetrating caricature, and the writer as personality. In considering their life and works, Professor Blissett discloses a host of new details bearing on how the two essayist-cartoonists viewed their Edwardian world with its roots in Victorian grandeur and facing a troubled new century.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1772442496
• ISBN13: 9781772442496
• Release Date: September 2022
• Publisher: Rock's Mills Press
• Length: 154 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"