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Zuleika Dobson comes up to Oxford to visit her grandfather the Warden, and every undergraduate in the university falls in love with her — including the Duke of Dorset, who has never loved anything but himself. Beerbohm, whom Shaw called the incomparable Max, took ten years over his only novel and made it a perfect machine: a comedy in which the joke is carried through to the end without a flinch.

The Best Works of Max BeerbohmA Christmas GarlandA.V. Laider,And Even NowEnoch SoamesJames PethelSeven MenThe Works of Max BeerbohmYet AgainZuleika Dobson

It was with the sense of a, for him, very memorable something that he peered now into the immediate future, and tried, not without compunction, to take that period up where he had, prospectively, left it. But just where the deuce had he left it? The consciousness of dubiety was, for our friend, not, this morning, quite yet clean-cut enough to outline the figures on what she had called his "horizon," between which and himself the twilight was indeed of a quality somewhat intimidating. He ha...

A collection of Beerbohm's essays from the 1890s written while he was still a student at Oxford. The book launched Beerbohm's career as an essayist. Replete with mock-scholarly footnotes and biographical information, The Works epitomizes Beerbohm's penchant for deflating pretentiousness with satiric imitation.

The Best Works of Max BeerbohmA Christmas GarlandA.V. Laider,And Even NowEnoch SoamesJames PethelSeven MenThe Works of Max BeerbohmYet AgainZuleika Dobson

Zuleika Dobson is a 1911 novel by Max Beerbohm, a satire of undergraduate life at Oxford. It was his only novel, but was nonetheless very successful. Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

The collection consists of seven essays, each focusing on a different notable figure from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Beerbohm uses his wit and sharp pen to provide caricature-like sketches of these individuals, often exaggerating their quirks and eccentricities. While the essays are humorous and satirical, they also offer insightful commentary on the nature of celebrity, art, and society.The seven men featured in the essays are George Bernard Shaw, H.G. Wells, G.K. Chesterton,...

This satirical novel of life and love at Oxford University is one of the Modern Library's 100 Best NovelsMax Beerbohm's only novel is a comic masterpiece set in the privileged environs of Judas College, Oxford. When beautiful prestidigitator Zuleika Dobson gains admittance to the all-male campus, romance is suddenly in the air. But the smitten undergraduates are out of luck, because this femme fatale can only love a man unaffected by her charms.The snobbish ...

Zuleika Dobson is an incredibly beautiful young woman, famous as a conjuror, 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. Sir Henry Maximilian "Max" Beerbohm (1872-1956) was an English writer, caricaturist, and humorist best known for his novel ZULEIKA DOBSON.

The story is set in the fictional world of Oxford University and follows the character of Zuleika Dobson, a beautiful and enigmatic woman who is visiting Oxford with her grandfather, the Warden of Judas College. Zuleika quickly captures the attention and admiration of the male students at the university, including the protagonist, a young undergraduate named John "J" who becomes infatuated with her.As the story unfolds, it becomes clear that Zuleika is both admired and desired by nearly ev...

This file includes: And Even Now, A Christmas Garland, Seven Men, The Works of Max Beerbohm, Yet Again, and Zuleika Dobson. According to Wikipedia: "Sir Henry Maximilian "Max" Beerbohm (August 24, 1872 May 20, 1956) was an English essayist, parodist and caricaturist best known today for his 1911 novel Zuleika Dobson."