Zuleika Dobson
Published on 30. January 2020
Book
Paperback/Softback
208 pages
978-0-241-25312-0 (ISBN)
Description
Zuleika Dobson, great beauty and second-rate conjurer, leaves a trail of broken hearts behind her wherever she goes. When she arrives at Oxford to stay with her grandfather, the Warden of Judas College, the entire student population is immediately smitten - including the proud and impossibly noble Duke of Dorset. But disaster looms for the fatally lovelorn undergraduates in Beerbohm's brilliant satire on the strange and enchanting world of Oxford before the wars.
Reviews / Votes
The finest, and darkest, kind of satire: as intoxicating as champagne, as addictive as morphine, and as lethal as prussic acid -- Robert McCrum A class act -- Val McDermeid Mr Beerbohm in his way is perfect ... He is without doubt the prince of his profession -- Virginia Woolf Beerbohm was a genius of the purest kind. He stands at the summit of his art -- Evelyn Waugh A great work - the most consistent achievement of fantasy in our time ... So funny and charming, so iridescent yet so profound -- E. M. Forster Of comic novels that have quaffed the elixir of 'classic': Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm -- Cynthia Ozick A perfect fantasy The New York Review of BooksMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Penguin Books Ltd
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 129 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-241-25312-0 (9780241253120)
Copyright in bibliographic data and cover images is held by Nielsen Book Services Limited or by the publishers or by their respective licensors: all rights reserved.
Schweitzer Classification
Person
Max Beerbohm was born in London in 1873. As a young man, he gained a reputation as a dandy and wit, and started publishing essays in magazines such as the notorious Yellow Book. He dropped out of Oxford and soon published his first book. Zuleika Dobson (1911) was his only novel, but he was also famous as a critic and caricaturist. In 1910, he moved to Italy where he remained until his death in 1956.