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Happy Hypocrite: A Fairy Tale For Tired Men

Happy Hypocrite: A Fairy Tale For Tired Men

Written by: Max Beerbohm
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Sir Henry Maximilian "Max" Beerbohm was an English essayist, parodist, and caricaturist. The Happy Hypocrite: A Fairy Tale for Tired Men is a short story with moral implications. Beerbohm's tale is a lighter, more humorous version of Oscar Wilde's classic tale of moral degeneration, The Picture of Dorian Gray. The Happy Hypocrite tells the story of a man who deceives a woman with a mask in order to marry her. (Summary from Wikipedia)Copyright Humorous Fiction Genre Art Biological Sciences Science
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