Zuleika Dobson: Or, An Oxford Love Story (Neversink)

Zuleika Dobson: Or, An Oxford Love Story (Neversink)

Sir Henry Maximilian â€œMaxâ€ Beerbohm was, like his friend Oscar Wilde, such an acclaimed wit (and essayist, caricaturist, and parodist) that George Bernard Shaw dubbed him â€œthe incomparable Max.â€ But Beerbohmâ€™s comic masterpiece Zuleika Dobsonâ€”one of the Modern Libraryâ€™s top 100 English-language novels of the twentieth centuryâ€”is the only novel he ever wrote.

Strangely out of print in the United States for years, this crackling farce is nonetheless as piercing and fresh as when it first appeared in 1911: a hilarious dismantling of academia and privilege, and a swashbuckling lampooning of class systems and notions of masculine virtue.

The all-male campus of Oxfordâ€”Beerbohmâ€™s alma materâ€”is a place where aesthetics holds sway above all else, and where witty intellectuals reign. Things havenâ€™t changed for its privileged student body for years .â€†.â€†. until the beguiling music-hall prestidigitator Zuleika Dobson shows up.

The bookâ€™s marvelous prose dances along the line between reality and the absurd as students and dons alike fall at Zuleikaâ€™s feet, and she cuts a wide swath across the campusâ€”until she encounters one young aristocrat for whom she is astonished to find she has feelings.

As Zuleika, and her creator, zero in on their targets, the book takes some surprising and dark twists on its way to a truly startling endingâ€”an ending so striking that readers will understand why Virginia Woolf said that â€œMr. Beerbohm in his way is perfect.â€
Country USA
Brand Melville House
Manufacturer Melville House
Binding Paperback
Color Teal/Turquoise green
ReleaseDate 2014-01-14
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781612192925

Country	USA
Brand	Melville House
Manufacturer	Melville House
Binding	Paperback
Color	Teal/Turquoise green
ReleaseDate	2014-01-14
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781612192925

Zuleika Dobson: Or, An Oxford Love Story (Neversink)

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