{"id":5070,"date":"2017-05-28T17:01:33","date_gmt":"2017-05-29T00:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/?p=5070"},"modified":"2018-02-22T11:04:27","modified_gmt":"2018-02-22T19:04:27","slug":"zuleika-dobson-by-max-beerbohm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/zuleika-dobson-by-max-beerbohm","title":{"rendered":"Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-5071 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/zuleika_dobson-197x300.jpg\" alt=\"Zuleika Dobson\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/zuleika_dobson-197x300.jpg 197w, http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/zuleika_dobson.jpg 292w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 197px) 100vw, 197px\" \/>The best thing I can say about <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2rvtAnn\"><em>Zuleika Dobson<\/em><\/a>\u00a0by Max Beerbohm is that it helped me meet the letter &#8220;Z&#8221; requirement for my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/2017-reading-challenges\">2017 Alphabet Soup Reading Challenge<\/a>. I forced myself to keep reading this dated satire long after I lost interest in it. From the publisher:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Max Beerbohm\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>The snobbish and taciturn Duke of Dorset appears up to the challenge, but his wall of indifference crumbles when Zuleika falls for him. She immediately rejects him for reciprocating her feelings, of course, and the Duke is driven to despair. He resolves to kill himself to teach her a lesson, but one small problem remains: Zuleika thinks suicide is romantic\u2014and every lovesick undergraduate at Oxford is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">dying<\/span> to agree with her.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This novel joins\u00a0<em>Candide<\/em> and\u00a0<em>Gulliver&#8217;s Travels<\/em> as satires that left me bored and bewildered.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2rvtAnn\"><em>Zuleika Dobson<\/em><\/a> by Max Beerbohm<br \/>\n<em>First edition<\/em> London: Heinemann, 1911<br \/>\n<em>Kindle edition<\/em> Open Road Media, November 24, 2015<br \/>\nPrint length: 216 pages<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The best thing I can say about Zuleika Dobson\u00a0by Max Beerbohm is that it helped me meet the letter &#8220;Z&#8221; requirement for my 2017 Alphabet Soup Reading Challenge. I forced myself to keep reading this dated satire long after I lost interest in it. From the publisher: Max Beerbohm\u2019s 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&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5074,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1057,5],"tags":[878,842,944,948,947,946,943,945],"class_list":["post-5070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-review","category-books","tag-2017-reading-challenge","tag-book-reviews","tag-candide","tag-edwardian","tag-gullivers-travels","tag-jonathan-swift","tag-max-beerbohm","tag-voltaire"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Zuleika_Dobson_penguin_detail.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pOucj-1jM","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5070"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5075,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5070\/revisions\/5075"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}