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Zuleika Dobson

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Zuleika Dobson is a highly accomplished and superbly written book whose spirit is farcical," said E. M. Forster. "It is a great work--the most consistent achievement of fantasy in our time . . .
so funny and charming, so iridescent yet so profound."
Originally published in 1911, Max Beerbohm's sparklingly wicked satire concerns the unlikely events that occur when a femme f...more

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Published September 14th 1998 by Modern Library (first published 1911)

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Nov 16, 2012 Evan rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: Veteran readers, and people wishing to complete the Modern Library Top 100 novels list

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This is, without doubt, one of the most remarkable novels in the English language. There really is nothing else like it, neither in the style in which it is hewn nor in its odd blend of gentility and pitch black satire and playful authorial first-person flights of fancy. And it's hardly likely that a more frivolous book has ever been written so well. The book is overwritten not to a fault, but to its credit. The dazzling turning of the phrase is Beerbohm's great strength. Every sentence is a mar...more

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Apr 17, 2013 James rated it 5 of 5 stars

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Zuleika Dobson is one of the most extraordinary and eccentric works of literature I’ve come across. Published a few years before the outbreak of World War I, its comic deployment of Greek Mythology intermixed with a generally light-hearted satiric hypostatization of an ebbing Edwardian society seems at once both a fitting sendoff as well as a peculiar graveside eulogy to a world which after the four cataclysmic years of the war would forever be obscured by the mammoth spectacle of carnage that f...more Zuleika Dobson is one of the most extraordinary and eccentric works of literature I’ve come across. Published a few years before the outbreak of World War I, its comic deployment of Greek Mythology intermixed with a generally light-hearted satiric hypostatization of an ebbing Edwardian society seems at once both a fitting sendoff as well as a peculiar graveside eulogy to a world which after the four cataclysmic years of the war would forever be obscured by the mammoth spectacle of carnage that followed. To quote the title (a title borrowed from Aeschylus) of Robert Graves’ imperishable memoir of the same era, it was as if a whole generation said: Goodbye to All That. And Beerbohm's, though sonorous and satirical, is but one in a cacophony of plaintive grievances levelled against an era whose detachment virtually paved the way to hell.

If you’ve never read Max Beerbohm before you must pick up his collection of parodies Seven Men; or if you’re too busy for the entire book, at least read Enoch Soames. Besides being hilarious Enoch Soames paints the quintessential portrait of a bumptious, self-absorbed artist—a cautionary tale telling how an artist is doomed, and possibly damned, when vanity outstrips authenticity and rules the creative process.

Zuleika follows in the same tradition as Seven Men, but goes much farther in its mocking conceit. Stylistically, Beerbohm is as limpid and elegant as Wodehouse, except with more intellectual flair and profundity. He writes a book that is both intellectually stimulating and absolutely hilarious; in fact, perhaps the biggest issue with the book is how much is going on. I was reminded of Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels while reading Zuleika because the world Beerbohm paints, while grounded in a securer realism than Gulliver, constantly develops beyond its satiric base to a world where even gods are possible. And Beerbohm walks the line of plausibility masterfully. Because of this complex inter-relatedness of fantasy and reality, Beerbohm both looks to the future—to magical realism—and also backwards to the fairytales of old. That the work is also an excoriating work of satire, one that pokes fun at everyone—even grand old buildings and legendary institutions—is but icing on the cake.

At the start of the novel, we meet Zuleika Dobson as she's arriving at the Oxford train station; she’s there to meet her grandfather, the current Warden of Judas College. Judas is a made up college, but we quickly pick up on why Beerbohm invented the name. Judas was a sellout, and so too was the self-satisfied Edwardian age. Zuleika claims to not be pretty; but she is, or rather she possesses some quality that makes her entirely irresistible to men. The fact that she’s irresistible will become the central detail which sets the novel’s plot in motion.

Once we meet Zuleika at the train station we are then treated to a short summary of her past: we learn how she was abandoned at a young age to poverty, and then by her own efforts made rich, having learned various magic tricks from one of her lovers. As a magician she then tours through Europe, garnering plaudits and a slew of admirers. Somehow the aura of magic has transformed her into a bewitching temptress, and if we follow the logic of Beerbohm’s general mythological scheme, quite possibly Zuleika is to be taken as a modern day equivalent of Helen of Troy.

After following Zuleika for a bit the focus then shifts to the Duke of Dorset, a young, rigid aristocrat, who lodges in ordinary dorm-like circumstances at Oxford but in a manner of ludicrous refinement. The Duke has been groomed for a rather dour life as a member of the peerage. He is unromantic and carries with him the slightly callous outlook of his social class. But when he meets Zuleika all that changes. He immediately falls in love with her, and she with him.

I don’t want to spoil the book, so I won’t go too much into detail about what happens next. Suffice it to say that when Zuleika finds out that the Duke loves her, her own love suddenly vanishes—she has her own purest conceptions which conceive of love as something unattainable, and the fact that the Duke can so easily fall in love with her puts her off. At this point, the fantasy steps in and becomes increasingly over the top and hilarious. Following the Duke’s lead, the rest of the undergraduate class falls in love with Zuleika; and when he decides to kill himself for the sake of her love, the rest of the undergraduates commit themselves to the same rash course.

At this point, the story yet again changes. The voice of the narrator reveals himself as a messenger from the God Clio, who’s in cahoots with Zeus and other Olympian immortals. The idea behind this, I imagine, is to mock the naturalism of Zola and other French writers of the era by showing how thin their heavy-handed view of causality is. But I would add that this is where the resonances with the catastrophe of World War I also come into play. The Duke commits himself to a foolhardy suicide because of his old-world values and the strange, quixotic view of how courageous acts of valour are immortalized. The hardly believable dynamic of his confusions and doubts about suicide, while more straightforwardly satirical for Beerbohm’s contemporaries, would’ve become horrifyingly perspicacious to his readers during and after the War. The collective act of suicide motivated by a romantic ideal is shown for the absurd act it is, all the while it is surrounded by an aura of social and cultural malaise which provide a motivational backdrop for such a bizarre happening. When you view this in light of what happened over the course of the next three and a half decades, the satire becomes something far more than perhaps even Beerbohm intended.

Simply as a work of literature, the book is an outstanding example of fantasy; it is also full of lush language, written in an extremely clear but poetically fragrant style. I seriously doubt any lover of literature will dislike this novel, let alone grow bored with the perpetual innovation Beerbohm subtly interweaves into the narrative. When, towards the end, the two Owls arrive, representing the fateful sign of the gods’ decree, and the Duke, who is backing away from his plans to commit suicide, submits to his fate and by doing so sheds a whole new light on how individuals respond to calls for faithfulness to traditions, to gods, to religion, I think any reader will see that underlying the mellifluous and luminous phrases was an author of powerful insight and social relevance.
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Sep 15, 2009 Sherwood Smith rated it 3 of 5 stars

Beerbohm was famous during his era for his witty, airy essays and short works of various types. I believe this was his only novel.

There were a number of novels about femme fatales* during that era, after Benson's Dodo, and Hope's (much more witty and readable) Dolly Dialogues--and at the serious end, Henry James' various lapidary, even microscopic looks at females who destroyed men's lives--but this one was meant to be satire. Zuleika, born poor, was an unhappy governess, ignorant and uninterest...more Beerbohm was famous during his era for his witty, airy essays and short works of various types. I believe this was his only novel.

There were a number of novels about femme fatales* during that era, after Benson's Dodo, and Hope's (much more witty and readable) Dolly Dialogues--and at the serious end, Henry James' various lapidary, even microscopic looks at females who destroyed men's lives--but this one was meant to be satire. Zuleika, born poor, was an unhappy governess, ignorant and uninterested in academics, and pretty on top of it, so she seldom lasted long at any place. As soon as the house's young master took a look at her, she'd be sent packing . . . but not before one son taught her conjuring.

She soon was world famous for her conjuring act, and rich, but her heart was untouched. She comes to visit an old relative in Oxford, and instantly falls "in love" with a Duke just because he scorns her--as he falls in love with her because she scorns him. Then all of Oxford falls in love with her, and all the young men commit suicide for love.

This was apparently funny at the time. It was not funny to me--it was actually kind of painful, not the suicides of characters with all the depth of kleenex, but because of the Oxford depicted there. It really was the old world, the Oxford Evelyn Waugh, for example, badly wanted to belong to, if only he could have been born a few years earlier and much higher on the social scale then he was. It was Lord Peter Wimsy's Oxford. When you consider that this book came out in 1911, it's difficult not to imagine these swan-like young men sent off to the Somme, a few years later, had they not expired for love of a very, very boring girl with a pretty face.

Three stars for its being interesting as a cultural artifact, but as a story? Meh. A few funny lines, some wit, but most of it very, very dated.

*It could be that Beerbohm was making fun of Mary Sue characters way back in 1911, which idea would almost be enough for another star, but she was still boring to read about.(less)

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Feb 12, 2013 Mommalibrarian rated it 2 of 5 stars

I would like to read more of Max Beerbohm the author but he is not much of a novelist. His illustrations were mostly quite clever although I prefer to read my books unillustrated so I can control the appearance of the characters.

One of the two stars given is for vocabulary - I ended up looking up about 50 words! The text could be read without this but I love vocabulary and dictionaries.

Minus a star for the conceit of telling us what is bound to happen quite early in the story and then not real...more

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Dec 26, 2011 Bob rated it 4 of 5 stars

I read this about two years ago and forgot to make a note of it. I am now reminded of it as a couple of threads from the past month come together; Max Beerbohm was part of the late 19th century London literary and artistic milieu in which Henry James found himself immersed but not quite at ease, feeling, among other things, that Oscar Wilde and John Addington Symonds ought to have kept their urges decently under wraps. James was an established older generation contributor to Aubrey Beardsley's T...more

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Mar 29, 2011 Paul rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This is an oddity. It was Beerbohm's only novel and is a satire of university life at Oxford in the very early twentieth century. There is no need to worry about spoilers, the book does that for you very near the beginning. Most of the characters are as shallow as puddles. There are bursts of magic realism occasional ghosts, Greek gods and lots of style with no depth.
The story is about a young woman who is very beautiful; she has a successful conjuring act (although she is not very good at it)....more

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Feb 12, 2011 Mark Harding rated it 4 of 5 stars

This novella is very difficult to constructively talk about to anyone who hasn’t read it. Not because of plot spoilers - there is hardly any plot - but because of joke spoilers. The book is super-arch and hyper-camp. Pretty much every paragraph has a classical reference and at least one joke. The only reason to read the book is for the style and jokes, and if I quote one, I’ll be spoiling a good joke if someone reads the book.

So, I’ll say the book is f-ing brilliant, I’ll outline the story and c...more

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Sep 24, 2010 Charles Matthews rated it 5 of 5 stars

My copy of Zuleika Dobson was given to me by a fellow graduate student on the occasion of our graduation. I haven't read it since then. In 1998 a panel commissioned by the Modern Library called it one of the 100 best novels of the 20th century -- No. 59 to be exact. Whether it's a better novel than The Moviegoer (60), The Catcher in the Rye (64), The House of Mirth (69), or The Adventures of Augie March (81), I can't say.

In truth, I think it misleading to call Zuleika Dobson a novel. It has les...more

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Nov 03, 2012 Smcleish rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Originally published on my blog here in April 2001.

While this famous comic novel has much in common with the writing of Oscar Wilde and Saki, it has at its centre an extravagent gesture all of its own, far beyond anything attempted by these other writers.

Zuleika is an incredibly beautiful young woman, famous as a conjurer, who visits Oxford as the guest of her grandfather, Warden of Judas College. There she meets the extremely eligible Duke of Dorset, an undergraduate, who leads the other studen...more Originally published on my blog here in April 2001.

While this famous comic novel has much in common with the writing of Oscar Wilde and Saki, it has at its centre an extravagent gesture all of its own, far beyond anything attempted by these other writers.

Zuleika is an incredibly beautiful young woman, famous as a conjurer, who visits Oxford as the guest of her grandfather, Warden of Judas College. There she meets the extremely eligible Duke of Dorset, an undergraduate, who leads the other students first into falling in love with her and then into suicide because of her. The death of thousands of students is the extravagant gesture, and much of the novel is about the day leading up to this, at the climax of Eights Week (the main rowing competition between Oxford colleges).

The deaths may seem a strange central episode for a comic novel, and it does occasionally threaten to overwhelm the humour, particularly in the description of the last hours of the Duke's life, when he realises that Zuleika is not worthy of the sacrifice he is making but that he is compelled by his honour and the appearance at his ancestral home of the owls that mark the death of the head of the family to go through with it. The Duke is a far more sympathetic character than the vain, selfish, shallow and not terribly bright Zuleika, and it is a task which has taken much skill from Beerbohm to balance the reader's sorrow over his fate with the humour of the novel.

One question which I cannot answer is whether Zuleika Dobson has any meaning beyond what it appears to have on the surface. If it had been written after 1914, it would fairly clearly have seemed to be a reference to the destruction of youth by the war; but this is impossible. What destroys the youth of Oxford is something which appeals to their desires in a fairly superficial way - Zuleika's appearance; she isn't even a particularly good conjurer. Maybe she represents the lure of the world outside the college cloisters, corrupting the elite of the country; she is after all an outsider in Oxford.

This particular edition contains delightful eccentric illustrations by Beerbohm, unpublished in his lifetime but reproduced from one of his copies of the novel.(less)

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Oct 15, 2009 El rated it 4 of 5 stars Recommends it for: Josiah

Shelves: modern-library-list-top-100-fiction, early20th-centurylit

Maybe the way to be a successful writer is to write one really fantastic novel and then that's it. It worked for Harper Lee with To Kill a Mockingbird. And it worked for Max Beerbohm with Zuleika Dobson which made it's way onto the Modern Library Top 100 List. It's not just a list comprised of boring dead white guys. Some of them are actually pretty good it seems.

The title character is this real hot tamale who arrives in Oxford to visit her grandfather, the Warden of the college. In the short ti...more

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Jan 06, 2013 Yve-Anne rated it 4 of 5 stars

Written in 1911, described as a satire, this period piece is not an easy read, so you will not be leaping through the story at a fast rate. Basically, it is about the most beautiful woman in the world or most probably the most charismatic of women. Zuleika is able to bewitch and charm every man she meets into falling in love with her, but is unable to love them back if they love her. So it is that she turns up at Oxford University and proceeds to turn all the young men into her devoted followers...more

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Aug 08, 2011 Veronica rated it 5 of 5 stars

Recommended to Veronica by: Modern Library's 100 Best Novels

I’ve a new author to add to my ‘must read more of’ list and his name is Sir Max Beerbohm. I would bow before this genius whose masterful skills I am in awe of yet I suppose he’d laugh and tell me to stop with such nonsense. He’s the real deal, the whole enchilada, the write stuff, etc. Enough gushing, on with the review.

Imagine the vainglorious woman so self-involved as to be blinded to reality. Add an arrogant and intentionally unavailable young man, a splash of humor and impeccably timed story...more

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Jan 16, 2011 Polly rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction, historical

I've been encountering references to this book for years--mostly to the fact that the entire undergraduate population of Oxford pitch themselves into the river and die for love of Zulieka. That's a heck of a build-up, and I was really hoping for some seriously amusing fluff. Well, it was doubtless so in the early 20th century, but sadly it isn't now. I giggled once or twice, but this (even to an extremely literate and fairly old-fashioned Anglophile) is no longer delightful, elegant or witty--al...more

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Feb 12, 2012 John E. Branch Jr. rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction-modern-british

"The inimitable Max": isn't that what they called him? It's been so long since I thought about Max Beerbohm I had forgotten I read this book until it popped up here as a book connected in some inscrutable way with The Wings of the Dove. Among Edwardian humorists he was divine and peerless. There's a moment in one of his works, perhaps this one, in which a succession of passing events includes this simple report: "Pippa passes." It's funny only in context, of course, and you have to know a bit of...more

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Mar 20, 2010 carl theaker rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: modern-library-100

The advisors who put this book on the Modern Library Top 100 should be taken out and shot!

The fact that the Modern Library had to recently print this edition, otherwise no one would have ever
found it, shows its obscurity (now available at your local used bookstore). I mean no one reads
Ulysses and you can find that anywhere.

A tale of the beautiful, up from the working class Zuleika, granddaughter of the Oxford dean, who
visits the college and has everyone fall in love with her.

This satire of...more

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Jul 27, 2011 Stan Murai rated it 2 of 5 stars

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Zuleika Dobson is the name of a stunningly attractive young woman, a femme fatale, who manages to enter a prestigious all-male domain of Oxford University as a visitor of her grandfather, the warden of Judas College. She entices the students with her charms, but feels she can only love someone who is impervious to her. Her rejected suitors are even driven to suicide. Written in 1911, this work is still a humorous satire, but it was not a very engaging reading experience for me. Maybe I'm just n...more

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May 17, 2013 Callie rated it 5 of 5 stars

What a find! I had never even heard of this book. Enchanting, charming, quirky, laugh out loud funny, this book is sublime. I slowed down to read it because I did not want it to end. Max Beerbohm you are a genius. I didn't know what was going to happen until I turned to the last page. Every two pages there was some plot twist.

This is a satirical take on all the sappy, ridiculous love stories (twilight, anyone?) that have always been written and will continue ad infinitum.

The set-up: Zuleika is...more

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Apr 29, 2012 Mike rated it 3 of 5 stars

A unique story. A farsical tall tale. Most beautiful man ( the duke ) in the world meets the most beautiful woman ( Zuleika ) in the world at Oxford. Man ingores woman over dinner. Woman confesses love to man over breakfast the next day. Man confesses his love for her and her beauty. She then retracts her love for him because he is,after all, like all men, crazy for her. Beautiful man drowns himself in the river because he cannot live wihout her love. Several fellow undergrads fall in love at fi...more

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Jun 14, 2011 Rick Davis rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction

Those busts of the old Roman emperors at Oxford knew that trouble was brewing the moment Zuleika Dobson set foot on that noble campus. If anyone had been paying attention, he would have seen those venerable marble gentlemen sweating profusely at the premonition of what was about to transpire. You see, Zuleika is no ordinary girl. She’s the sort of extraordinary girl that causes every man who comes in contact with her to fall madly in love. Unfortunately, she could never love the sort of man who...more

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Nov 17, 2011 Margaret Mccamant rated it 3 of 5 stars

I was told about this book, set in Oxford's Edwardian days, by a friend shortly before leaving for a trip to Oxford for the book fair. I found it at Blackwell's, the fine and huge book store in Oxford, and bought it. I didn't manage to read it during my 3 days there, but just finished it today, after returning to Chicago. The book is quite entertaining, a farce about a woman who comes to Oxford and drives scores of undergraduates to kill themselves for love of her. It was especially fun to be ab...more

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Jan 14, 2009 Joe Mossa rated it 3 of 5 stars

i can t say i really enjoyed reading this book as so many readers on this site did. i read it cause it is on the list of the 100 best novels of the 20th cent by random house,which list i collect and have read 87 of so far. i got a copy of it at a used book store for 25 cents,recognized the title since the only time i have heard of either the title or the author was from the list. i know it has many messages in it..don t follow the crowd..women can rule men..etc. i have a hard time with that typ...more

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Mar 01, 2013 Scott Shepard rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: guardian-top-1000, kindle

This book was odd. I read this one because it is on the first page of the google doc I use to keep track of the Guardian novels. When I open that doc up I like seeing that I’ve read something.

It stars Zuleika Dobson, a beautiful young woman who visits her uncle at Oxford. While visiting she manages to make every young man on the Oxford campus fall in love with her. She is a siren and apparently does this quite often. However, her affections are not returned. She can only love one who does not lo...more

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Oct 24, 2012 Kate rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: read-in-2012

:From the moment she set foot in Oxford to stay with her grandfather (Warden of Judas), the lovely Zuleika played havoc with the undergraduates -- and with non more than the Duke of Dorset, a character whom Ouida would have been pleased to invent. Max Beerbohm called this delicious novel of his 'An Oxford Love Story', and for fifty years it has delighted successive generations by its elegance and wit."
~~back cover

The book started out well enough. Mr. Beerbohm is nothing if not a master craftsman...more

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May 07, 2010 Jason Pettus rated it 3 of 5 stars

(Reprinted from the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography [cclapcenter.com:]. I am the original author of this essay, as well as the owner of CCLaP; it is not being reprinted illegally.)

The CCLaP 100: In which I read for the first time a hundred so-called literary "classics," then write reports on whether or not they deserve the label

Essay #41: Zuleika Dobson, by Max Beerbohm (1911)

The story in a nutshell:
Originally published in 1911, Max Beerbohm's novella-sized Zuleika Dobson is in act...more

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Jan 04, 2012 Kim Olson rated it 3 of 5 stars

The title character of this satire of romantic love and life at Oxford in the early 20th century is a beautiful young woman, a talentless magician with whom all of the male undergraduates fall hopelessly in love, except for one. She immediately becomes smitten with him, if for no other reason than his resistance to her. When he falls for her, of course, she immediately loses interest. And so it goes. The series of events that follow only up the satire. A fun read.

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Sep 15, 2009 Sur Cur Lengel rated it 4 of 5 stars

An interesting book by Beerbohm but I'd never know exactly on which shelf to place it:

a treatise on manners and vanity,
an absurdity,
a science fiction novel because of the speaking apparitions, the symbolic owls and the moody pearls,
a study on religion concerning self-will and the Olympian gods,
a farce,
a love story,
a mockery of fashion, speech and nationality (especially the Scots),
or just an author grinning like mad, putting us on and and writing out of pique.

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Jan 30, 2012 Artemis Eclectica rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: ex-libris

I discovered the incorrigible Max a long time ago through his superb caricatures; in particular, Aubrey Beardsley, parodying the artist's drawing style - brilliant and funny. Zuleika Dobson is a masterpiece of mockery. A mixture of fantasy and satire of the Edwardian dandy and the idle, gilded life of Oxford. Subtitled An Oxford Love Story, the love in question is not so much that of the distinctly unlikeable characters, but for the University itself.

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Sep 11, 2008 Jen rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: classics, comedy

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May 27, 2012 The Chestertonian rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: english-lit, satire

Quite funny tale of a deadly woman who attracts universal adoration from all young men, but who can love no man but the man who does not love her. Tragedy ensues. The story is told with elegant wit and outrageous neglect of the rules of probability--altogether amusing.

I wish a professor would use this quotation as his email signature: "Generations of undergraduates had said that Oxford would be all very well but for the dons. Do you suppose that the dons had had no answering sentiment?"

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Jul 28, 2011 Laurie Petersen added it

Maybe this is funny to someone who is, or knows, an Oxford stuffed shirt. I was led to believe that Max Beerbohm was the caustic wit of his generation, but you probably had to be there (Oxford in 1911) to get the in-jokes. I do love several non-Zuleika Max quotes, such as the one about how people who insist on telling their dreams are the terrors of the breakfast table. --Laurie

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