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Zuleika Dobson Paperback - 1998

by Max Beerbohm

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Beerbohm's satire of undergraduate life at Oxford, "Zuleika Dobson", first published in 1911, is a classic work whose neglect is sure to remedied by this republication in the Modern Library.

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Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time

"Zuleika Dobson is a highly accomplished and superbly written book whose spirit is farcical," said E. M. Forster. "It is a great work--the most consistent achievement of fantasy in our time . . . so funny and charming, so iridescent yet so profound."
Originally published in 1911, Max Beerbohm's sparklingly wicked satire concerns the unlikely events that occur when a femme fatale briefly enters the supremely privileged, all-male domain of Judas College, Oxford. A conjurer by profession, Zuleika Dobson can only love a man who is impervious to her considerable charms: a circumstance that proves fatal, as any number of love-smitten suitors are driven to suicide by the damsel's rejection. Laced with memorable one-liners ("Death cancels all engagements," utters the first casualty) and inspired throughout by Beerbohm's rococo imagination, this lyrical evocation of Edwardian undergraduate life at Oxford has, according to Forster, "a beauty unattainable by serious literature."
"I read Zuleika Dobson with pleasure," recalled Bertrand Russell. "It represents the Oxford that the two World Wars have destroyed with a charm that is not likely to be reproduced anywhere in the world for the next thousand years."

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Originally published in 1911, Max Beerbohm's sparklingly wicked satire concerns the unlikely events that occur when a femme fatale briefly enters the supremely privileged, all-male domain of Judas College, Oxford. A conjurer by profession, Zuleika Dobson can only love a man who is impervious to her considerable charms: a circumstance that proves fatal, as any number of love-smitten suitors are driven to suicide by the damsel's rejection. Laced with memorable one-liners ("Death cancels all engagements", utters the first casualty) and inspired throughout by Beerbohm's rococo imagination, this lyrical evocation of Edwardian undergraduate life at Oxford has, according to Forster, "a beauty unattainable by serious literature".

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  • Title Zuleika Dobson
  • Author Max Beerbohm
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 252
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Modern Library, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 1998-09-14
  • ISBN 9780375752483 / 037575248X
  • Weight 0.73 lbs (0.33 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.83 x 5.24 x 0.65 in (22.43 x 13.31 x 1.65 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1900-1919
    • Cultural Region: British
    • Topical: Coming of Age
  • Category Literature - Classics / Criticism
  • Library of Congress subjects Romance fiction, Young women - Fiction
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 98019544
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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MAX BEERBOHM (1872-1956), dubbed "the incomparable Max by George Bernard Shaw, was an essayist, caricaturist, critic, and short-story writer who endures as one of Edwardian England's leading satirists. Zuleika Dobson is his only novel.

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