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Zuleika Dobson
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Series: Modern Library 100 Best Novels
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ISBN10: 037575248X
ISBN13: 9780375752483
Publisher: Modern Library
Published: Sep 14 1998
Pages: 252
Weight: 0.73
Height: 0.65 Width: 5.24 Depth: 8.83
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780375752483
Publisher: Modern Library
Published: Sep 14 1998
Pages: 252
Weight: 0.73
Height: 0.65 Width: 5.24 Depth: 8.83
Language: English
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.
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.
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