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Synopsis

Zuleika dobson, or an oxford love story, is the only novel by english essayist max beerbohm, a satire of undergraduate life at oxford published in 1911. it includes the famous line "death cancels all engagements," and presents a corrosive view of edwardian oxford. 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.'

Item Description

252 pages, 14 x 20 cm. Coloured frontispiece by Author. Offsetting on front and back free end papers. D/J faded with chips at head and tail of spine.