Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm
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 Col-
lege, 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.
MAX BEERBOHM (1872-1956), nicknamed the inimitable Max by George Bernard Shaw, was an essayist, caricaturist, critic, and short-story writer who is now regarded as one of Edwardian England's most prominent satirists. His lone novel is Zuleika Dobson.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780375752483 |
| ISBN 10 | 037575248X |
| Title | Zuleika Dobson |
| Author | Max Beerbohm |
| Series | Modern Library 100 Best Novels |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 1998-09-14 |
| Number of pages | 252 |
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