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The Illustrated Zuleika Dobson (Hardcover)

by Max Beerbohm (Author)
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The whimsical tale of a beautiful girl who takes Oxford by storm. Written by Max Beerbohm, it is illustrated with his own sketches, and there is an introduction by Professor N. John Hall. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.


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"Perfectly delightful... all style and wit, a pretty fantasy served up in exquisite, ornamented prose... It is a book that would have doubtless pleased even the fussy author himself." -Michiko Kakutani, New York Times

"A perfect fantasy." -V. S. Pritchett, New York Review of Books

"The mixture of factual background and fantastic elaboration so characteristic of the text is now balanced visually by parodies." -Alan Bell, Times Literary Supplement

"The pictures add enormously to the pleasure we take in [Beerbohm's] elegantly stylized satire." -New Yorker

"The illustrations are charming, the style is both erudite and lively." -Walter Kendrick, Village Voice

"Graceful, witty, and charming, the illustrations... delight us." -Sam Pickering, Sewanee Review --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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4.0 out of 5 stars A bizarre and wonderful book, Oct 30 2003
By jmm38 (Baltimore, MD) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Illustrated Zuleika Dobson (Paperback)
Zuleika Dobson must be one of the strangest books ever written. Beerbohm's ornate prose cloaks a bizarre story that, while it starts innocently enough, marches toward its surreal fate with the same determination as the Oxford undergraduates it depicts.

But that isn't to say it isn't a marvelous satire. Beerbohm caricatures immature love by pitting a mysteriously alluring woman, Zuleika, who loves no man foolish enough to love her, against a pretentious nobleman known only as The Duke, who never thought himself capable of loving anyone but himself. Somehow, the author manages to tell their perverse story even as he reveals himself to be the servant of the Greek muse Clio; and the work loses nothing as it spirals into a comic fairy-tale featuring cameos by animated statues, supernatural apparitions--even Beerbohm himself!

This particular edition is (at least as of right now) my favorite. It is wonderfully printed, and the text is peppered with Beerbohm's original illustrations. He never meant to include them in the book, but they seem only fitting in a work that refuses to be categorized as a serious novel, or a typical satire, or a children's fairy-tale. Strongly recommended for serious readers with senses of humor who aren't disturbed by unexpected flights of fancy.

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