Christmas Garland

Few writers have possessed Max Beerbohm's talent for parody, and A Christmas Garland is perhaps the best collection of parodies ever written in English. Here are glorious, often loving spoofs of Beerbohm's well-known contemporaries -- Henry James, George Bernard Shaw, Thomas Hardy, Joseph Conrad, Rudyard Kipling, H.G. Wells, George Meredith, John Galsworthy, and others--woven together by a Christmas theme and by the inventiveness of Beerbohm's comic art.