Zuleika Dobson: Or An Oxford Love Story
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Book: Fair
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Pages: Yellowed
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A sparkling satirical novel set against the dreaming spires of Edwardian Oxford, Zuleika Dobson: Or An Oxford Love Story chronicles the catastrophic visit of Zuleika Dobson — a breathtakingly beautiful and utterly heartless young woman — to her grandfather's Oxford college, where every undergraduate promptly falls hopelessly in love with her. Max Beerbohm's razor-sharp wit illuminates the absurdity of romantic obsession and the pomposity of academic tradition, as the entire male student body, led by the proud Duke of Dorset, resolves to drown themselves in the River Isis as the ultimate gesture of unrequited devotion. Written with exquisite irony and a prose style of almost dandyish perfection, the novel presents a gleeful skewering of masculine vanity, hero worship, and the cult of beauty. Widely regarded as one of the finest comic novels in the English language, it remains a timeless and wickedly funny meditation on love, death, and the peculiar rituals of Oxford life.
Author: Max Beerbohm
Format: Paperback
Published: 1952, Penguin Books in association with William Heinemann
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: No markings
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
A sparkling satirical novel set against the dreaming spires of Edwardian Oxford, Zuleika Dobson: Or An Oxford Love Story chronicles the catastrophic visit of Zuleika Dobson — a breathtakingly beautiful and utterly heartless young woman — to her grandfather's Oxford college, where every undergraduate promptly falls hopelessly in love with her. Max Beerbohm's razor-sharp wit illuminates the absurdity of romantic obsession and the pomposity of academic tradition, as the entire male student body, led by the proud Duke of Dorset, resolves to drown themselves in the River Isis as the ultimate gesture of unrequited devotion. Written with exquisite irony and a prose style of almost dandyish perfection, the novel presents a gleeful skewering of masculine vanity, hero worship, and the cult of beauty. Widely regarded as one of the finest comic novels in the English language, it remains a timeless and wickedly funny meditation on love, death, and the peculiar rituals of Oxford life.