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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.\"
Editions of Zuleika Dobson
- Paperback
- ISBN 9780375752483
- EBook
- ISBN 9780679641162
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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.\"
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What is Zuleika Dobson about?
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.\"
What core themes, tropes, or subjects are explored in Zuleika Dobson?
Fiction > Fiction: literary and general non-genre > Classic fiction: literary and general
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You can read an official preview of the few pages here https://www.book2look.com/book/9780375752483
Is Zuleika Dobson part of a series, and can it be read as a standalone?
Yes it is a part of series Modern Library 100 Best Novels
Who is/are the Author/s of the book Zuleika Dobson?
Max Beerbohm
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Zuleika Dobson is available as paperback(ISBN 9780375752483) and ebook(ISBN 9780679641162)
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