The Happy Hypocrite: A Fairy Tale for Tired Men by Sir Max Beerbohm

"The Happy Hypocrite: A Fairy Tale for Tired Men" by Sir Max Beerbohm is a short story first published in 1896. A lighter, more humorous response to Oscar Wilde's "The Picture of Dorian Gray," it follows Lord George Hell, a worldly dandy who falls desperately in love with an innocent dancer. When she refuses to marry anyone without a saint's face, he makes a bold decision involving deception and disguise. What follows is an unexpected journey of transformation that questions whether true love can change a person from the inside out. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Beerbohm, Max, Sir, 1872-1956
Title The Happy Hypocrite: A Fairy Tale for Tired Men
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Happy_Hypocrite
Credits Produced by Malcolm Farmer, Mary Meehan and the Online
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Reading Level Reading ease score: 83.0 (6th grade). Easy to read.
Language English
LoC Class PR: Language and Literatures: English literature
Subject England -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction
Subject Fantasy fiction
Subject Love stories
Subject Masks -- Fiction
Category Text
eBook-No. 36497
Release Date
Last Update Jan 7, 2021
Copyright Public domain in the USA.
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