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The Happy Hypocrite tells the story of a man who deceives a woman with a mask in order to marry her. The book was published by John Lane at The Bodley Head , in New York City and in London in 1897.
- Max Beerbohm
- 1897
18. Apr. 2008 · 1915 [c1906] Publisher New York : John Lane Collection cdl; americana Contributor University of California Libraries Language English
The Happy Hypocrite. Max Beerbohm, George Sheringham (Illustrator) 3.51. 134 ratings19 reviews. This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.
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23. Juni 2011 · The spirit of the 1890s persists in this 1915 edition of a story the splendid Max wrote originally for The Yellow Book in 1896. Originally subtitled “A Fairy Tale for Tired Men”, The Happy Hypocrite is a typically light-hearted affair concerning the misadventures of one Lord George Hell.
- The Role of Masks in “The Happy Hypocrite”
- Setting of “The Happy Hypocrite”
- Story Structure of “The Happy Hypocrite”
I’ve previously written about the role of masks in storytelling. When reading this short story, I’m first reminded of a voice excerpt on the Paris Wells album Various Small Fires. A man says Is it possible to be in love with someone who doesn’t exist? Atheists would say yes. Perhaps we are all in love with someone who doesn’t exist, insofar as it’s...
“The Happy Hypocrite” takes a real world setting (specific parts of London) and marries it with Greek mythology to create a story which feels out of place in the Golden Argosy collection. It starts off feeling like a period drama, then feels like Greek mythology, then the happily married elopes into the woods and it’s a European fairytale. (Which w...
The story opens with a clear viewpoint homodiegetic narrator and a story starring the evocatively named Lord George Hell. His shortcoming (great naughtiness) is clearly listed straight away. He is ‘greedy, destructive and disobedient’. We don’t yet know who he is ‘disobedient’ to. This may also be his greatest strength. He has a fondness for clothes, suggesting he dresses above his station, even though he is titled. He is brutally honest. The narrator doesn’t see that as a good thing, since h...
It seems Lord George Hell is only interested in being king pin of his own local environs, hoodwinking others, getting rich as a result. But when he fells madly in love at first sight, with a girl less than half his age, we learn that he did desire true love after all. This particular desire of his is not questioned in the text. It is taken as a given that a man who is good deserves a lovely sixteen-year-old girl for his bride, and that this is the pinnacle of ‘done well for himself’. Yet this...
A mystery functions as opposition. A mystery is set up right away and the narrator is going to withhold this information for suspense: Why did Lord George Hell suddenly disappear? This applies to the wrapper story. La Gambogi is a fairytale witch archetypewho becomes George’s nemesis when she threatens to take off his mask. The binary between ‘good girl’ and ‘evil woman’ is stark in this story, with the character of spurned lover La Gambogi compared to a large cat at the end, which is one way...
3. Juni 2021 · MAX BEERBOHM. John Lane, The Bodley Head, New York and London. 1897. Copyright, 1896. by John Lane. The Happy Hypocrite. By Max Beerbohm. N one, it is said, of all who revelled with the Regent, was half so wicked as Lord George Hell. I will not trouble my little readers with a long recital of his great naughtiness.
25. Okt. 2010 · “The Happy Hypocrite” tells the story of Lord George Hell, the worst of the rakes who stalked Regency London. He is a spendthrift, a gambler, a glutton, a drunkard, a cheat, a liar, a philanderer, and a fop. His one “virtue” is that he doesn’t smoke, but that is only because he considers smoking to be unfashionable. His ...
