Zuleika Dobson
by Sir Max Beerbohm
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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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College students, Fiction, Young women, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), English College stories, English Love stories, Man-woman relationships, University of Oxford in fiction, Young women in fiction, College students in fiction, England, fiction, Fiction, romance, general, Young women, fiction, Romance fiction, Classic Literature, Fiction, christian, classic & allegory, FICTION / Classics, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Humorous, College storiesPlaces
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Zuleika Dobson: or An Oxford Love Story
November 17, 1983, Penguin (Non-Classics)
Paperback
in English
0140067132 9780140067132
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That old bell, presage of a train, had just sounded through Oxford station; and the undergraduates who were waiting there, gay figures in tweed or flannel, moved to the margin of the platform and gazed idly up the line. Young and careless, in the glow of the afternoon sunshine, they struck a sharp note of incongruity with the worn boards they stood on, with the fading signals and grey eternal walls of that antique station, which, familiar to them and insignificant, does yet whisper to the tourist the last enchantments of the Middle Age.
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