Zuleika Dobson

✍ Scribed by Max Beerbohm

• Book ID: 110635700
• Publisher: Melville House
• Year: 1911
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 237 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781907360220

✦ Synopsis

AUG 2022 - REVISED EBOOK
Paperback, 273 pages
Published: 1911
Melville House, Neversink Library (2014)
Zuleika Dobson: Or, An Oxford Love Story
Guardian/Mccrum 100 Best Novels
Modern Library 100 Best Novels (1900-1998)
Afterword by Sara Lodge
First published in 1911, a satiric look at undergraduate life at Oxford recounts the humorous impact of a visit by Zuleika, a beautiful young woman, during Eights Week.
One woman's beauty fells the whole of Oxford in this sidesplitting classic campus novel.
Nobody could predict the consequences when ravishing Zuleika Dobson arrives at Oxford, to visit her grandfather, the college warden. Formerly a governess, she has landed on the occupation of prestidigitator, and thanks to her overwhelming beauty—and to a lesser extent her professional talents—she takes the town by storm, gaining admittance to her grandfather's college. It is there, at the institution inspired by Beerbohm's own alma mater, that she falls in love the Duke of Dorset, who duly adores her in return. Ever aware of appearances, however, Zuleika breaks the Duke's heart when she decides that she must abandon the match.
The epidemic of heartache that proceeds to overcome the academic town makes for some of the best comic writing in the history of English literature.