His major works include The Works of Max Beerbohm (1896), a collection of witty essays, and The Happy Hypocrite (1897), a charming fairy-tale novella. His only novel, Zuleika Dobson (1911), is a celebrated satire of Oxford undergraduate life, depicting the havoc caused by a beautiful young woman whose charm drives the university's male students to romantic despair. Seven Men (1919), later expanded as Seven Men and Two Others (1950), displays his gift for fictional portraiture, while A Christmas Garland (1912) showcases his brilliance in parodying contemporary writers such as Kipling, Conrad, and Henry James. As a caricaturist, he was regarded as the finest of his age, as seen in Rossetti and His Circle (1922).
Settling in Rapallo, Italy, in 1910, Beerbohm wrote into old age. Knighted in 1939, he died in 1956, remembered as one of England's most graceful humorists.