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Zuleika Dobson : Or, an Oxford Love Story by Max Beerbohm (2014, Trade Paperback)

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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.

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PublisherMelville House Publishing

ISBN-101612192920

ISBN-139781612192925

eBay Product ID (ePID)169855076

Product Key Features

Book TitleZuleika Dobson : Or, an Oxford Love Story

Number of Pages288 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicClassics, Christian / Classic & Allegory, Literary, Romance / General, Humorous / General

Publication Year2014

IllustratorYes

GenreFiction

AuthorMax Beerbohm

Book SeriesNeversink Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight9.3 Oz

Item Length8 in

Item Width5 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2013-037392

Dewey Edition23

ReviewsPraise for Zuleika Dobson and Max Beerbohm "Mr. Beerbohm in his way is perfect ... He has brought personality into literature, not unconsciously and impurely, but so consciously and purely that we do not know whether there is any relation between Max the essayist and Mr. Beerbohm the man. We only know that the spirit of personality permeates every word that he writes ... 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 "Zuleika Dobson is a highly accomplished and superbly written book whose spirit is farcical. It is a great work--the most consistent achievement of fantasy in our time ... So funny and charming, so iridescent yet so profound." --E. M. Forster "Perfectly delightful ... All style and wit, a pretty fantasy served up in exquisite, ornamented prose." --Michiko Kakutani "I read Zuleika Dobson with pleasure. 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." --Bertrand Russell "Of comic novels that have quaffed the elixir of 'classic': Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm." --Cynthia Ozick "Among the masked dandies of Edwardian comedy, Max Beerbohm is the most happily armored by a deep and almost innocent love of himself as a work of art." --V. S. Pritchett "In his best stories there is more than a whisper of magic realism--a murmur, however distant, of questions about the nature of reality." --John Mortimer "Elegantly stylized satire." --The New Yorker "Erudite and lively." --The Village Voice "Graceful, witty, and charming." --Sewanee Review "Max Beerbohm, I dare say (and I believe it has been said before), is the most subtly gifted English essayist since Charles Lamb. It is not surprising that he has (now for many years) been referred to as 'the incomparable Max,' for what other contemporary has never once missed fire, never failed to achieve perfection in the field of his choice? Whether in caricature, short story, fable, parody, or essay, he has always been consummate in grace, tact, insouciant airy precision." --Christopher Morley "The greatest of English comic artists." -- The Times (London) "A perfect fantasy." --The New York Review of Books "There is no doubt about the cool irony of the style, or the fact that it's unlike any other book that's ever been written." --The New York Times "If Zuleika Dobson is too frivolous to be certified as 'canonical,' it is clearly a perennially revivable minor classic, uniquely redolent of a particular time and place." --L.A. Times, " Zuleika Dobson is a highly accomplished and superbly written book whose spirit is farcical. It is a great work--the most consistent achievement of fantasy in our time...so funny and charming, so iridescent yet so profound." --E.M. FORSTER "A masterpiece in English literature" --New York Times "Of comic novels that have quaffed the elixir of 'classic:' Zuleika Dobson , by Max Beerbohm." --CYNTHIA OZICK, " Zuleika Dobson is a highly accomplished and superbly written book whose spirit is farcical. It is a great work--the most consistent achievement of fantasy in our time...so funny and charming, so iridescent yet so profound." -E.M. FORSTER "A masterpiece in English literature" -New York Times "Of comic novels that have quaffed the elixir of 'classic:' Zuleika Dobson , by Max Beerbohm." -CYNTHIA OZICK

Afterword byLodge, Sara

Dewey Decimal823.912

SynopsisSir Henry Maximilian "Max" Beerbohm was, like his friend Oscar Wilde, such an acclaimed wit (and essayist, caricaturist, and parodist) that George Bernard Shaw dubbed him "the incomparable Max." But Beerbohm's comic masterpiece Zuleika Dobson--one of the Modern Library's top 100 English-language novels of the twentieth century--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 Oxford--Beerbohm's alma mater--is a place where aesthetics holds sway above all else, and where witty intellectuals reign. Things haven't changed for its privileged student body for years ... until the beguiling music-hall prestidigitator Zuleika Dobson shows up. The book's marvelous prose dances along the line between reality and the absurd as students and dons alike fall at Zuleika's feet, and she cuts a wide swath across the campus--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 ending--an ending so striking that readers will understand why Virginia Woolf said that "Mr. Beerbohm in his way is perfect.", Nobody could predict the consequences when ravishing Zuleika Dobson arrives at Oxford to visit her grandfather, the college warden. Formerly a governess, she has landed on the occupation of illusionist, and thanks to her overwhelming beauty - and to a lesser extent her professional talents - she takes the town by storm. However the epidemic of heartache that follows and proceeds to overcome the academic town makes for some of the best comic writing in the history of English literature.

LC Classification NumberPR6003.E4