Zuleika Dobson: An Oxford Love Story (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781721945726)

Zuleika Dobson: An Oxford Love Story by Max Beerbohm. Zuleika Dobson, full title Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story, is the only novel by Max Beerbohm, a very successful satire of undergraduate life at Oxford published in 1911. It includes the famous line "Death cancels all engagements" and presents a corrosive view of Edwardian Oxford. Zuleika Dobson-"though not strictly beautiful"-is a devastatingly attractive young woman of the Edwardian era, a true femme fatale, who is a prestidigitator by profession, formerly a governess. Zuleika's current occupation (though, more importantly, perhaps, her enrapturing beauty) has made her something of a small-time celebrity and she manages to gain entrance to the privileged, all-male domain of Oxford University because her grandfather is the Warden of Judas College (based on Merton College, Beerbohm's alma mater). There, she falls in love for the first time in her life with the Duke of Dorset, a snobbish, emotionally detached student who-frustrated with the lack of control over his feelings when he sees her-is forced to admit that she too is his first love, impulsively proposing to her. As she feels that she cannot love anyone unless he is impervious to her charms, however, she rejects all her suitors, doing the same with the astonished Duke.

Author: Max Beerbohm
ISBN-10: 1721945725
ISBN-13: 9781721945726
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 06/26/2018
Pages: 194
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.76lbs
Size: 10.00h x 7.01w x 0.41d