The Happy Hypocrite: A Fairy Tale For Tired Men
Author(s): Max Beerbohm
Genre(s): Humorous Fiction
Narrators: David Wales
Number of Chapters: 5
Length: 01 hour and 11 minutes
Language: English
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)