Zuleika Dobson

Max Beerbohm

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Modern Library Inc
15 December 1998

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Series: Modern Library 100 Best Novels

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.""

By: Max Beerbohm
Imprint: Modern Library Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 19mm
Weight: 335g
ISBN: 9780375752483
ISBN 10: 037575248X
Series: Modern Library 100 Best Novels
Pages: 252
Publication Date: 15 December 1998
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

MAX BEERBOHM (1872-1956), dubbed ""the incomparable Maxby 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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The author's only novel, in which the eponymous heroine arrives in 1890s Oxford, where she drives all the young men to drown themselves in the Isis. This often bizarre fantasy is redeemed by Beerbohm's wit and occasional apertus. (Kirkus UK)

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