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Zuleika Dobson
Chapters (26)
- Note to the 1922 Edition 0:00
- Epigraph 0:41
- I 0:46
- II 8:55
- III 37:21
- IV 57:21
- V 1:27:13
- VI 2:01:55
- VII 2:21:55
- VIII 3:02:53
- IX 3:40:45
- X 4:11:21
- XI 4:40:31
- XII 4:55:09
- XIII 5:04:48
- XIV 5:25:11
- XV 5:44:35
- XVI 6:17:38
- XVII 6:31:16
- XVIII 6:51:29
- XIX 7:14:09
- XX 7:40:46
- XXI 7:53:23
- XXII 8:08:43
- XXIII 8:37:13
- XXIV 8:57:35
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Max Beerbohm earned his fame as a caricaturist and essayist, and Zuleika Dobson is his only novel. Despite that, Zuleika has earned no small measure of fame, with the Modern Library ranking it 59th in its “100 Best English-Language Novels of the 20th Century.” Beerbohm’s essays were famous for their sharp wit and humor, and Zuleika follows in that tradition—Beerbohm himself called the novel “the work of a leisurely essayist amusing himself with a narrative idea.”
The novel follows Zuleika Dobson, a rather talentless woman of middling looks who nonetheless holds an almost mystical power of attraction over the men she comes in contact with. When she begins attending Oxford, she catches the eye of not just the Duke of Dorset, but of the entire male class.
Zuleika is both an easy comedy and a biting satire of Edwardian social mores and of the male-dominated Oxford student culture. Beerbohm also seems to forecast with eerie accuracy the cultural obsession with talentless celebrity that came to dominate the turn of the 21st century.