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

by William Blissett

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...

• 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"