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100 1 _aBeerbohm, Max, Sir,
_d1872-1956
245 1 2 _aA Peep Into the Past
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2022
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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500 _aWikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Peep_into_the_Past
500 _aRelease date is 2022-03-10
508 _aDonald Cummings from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
520 _a"A Peep Into the Past" by Sir Max Beerbohm is an essay written in 1893-1894 and privately printed in 1923. This satirical piece imagines Oscar Wilde—then at the height of his fame—as a staid, elderly recluse living quietly in Chelsea with a suspicious parade of page-boys. Beerbohm's cutting commentary lampoons Wilde's social aspirations and club life, creating a darkly prophetic portrait. Originally intended for The Yellow Book, the essay was withheld, possibly due to the impending Wilde scandal that would soon consume Victorian society. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cUnited States: M. Harzof, 1923
653 _aWilde, Oscar, 1854-1900
856 4 _uhttps://archive.org/details/peepintopast00beer
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/67604
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