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Produced by Judy Boss. A year later (1912) I visited London, and I found that most of my friends and acquaintances spoke to me of Zu-like-a-a name which I hardly recognised and thoroughly disapproved. I had always thought of the lady as Zu-leek-a. Surely it was thus that Joseph thought of his Wife, and Selim of his Bride?

Like Zuleika herself, this young Duke was in love for the first time

Rapt, she studied every lineament ofthe pale and perfect face-the brow from which bronze-coloured hair rosein tiers of burnished ripples; the large steel-coloured eyes, with theircarven lids; the carven nose, and the plastic lips. She noted how longand slim were his fingers, and how slender his wrists. Like Zuleika herself, this young Duke was in love for the first time. Wooed though he had been by almost as many maidens as she by youths, hisheart, like hers, had remained cold. But he had never felt, as shehad, the desire to love.

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Zuleika Dobson, full title Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story, is the only novel by Max Beerbohm, a satire of undergraduate life at Oxford published in 1911

Zuleika Dobson, full title Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story, is the only novel by 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.

Put all Oxford onits guard against this woman who can love no lover. Other author's books: The Happy Hypocrite: A Fairy Tale for Tired Men. Zuleika Dobson Or, An Oxford Love Story. Let all Oxfordknow that I, Dorset, who had so much reason to love life-I, thenonpareil-am going to die for the love I bear this woman. And let noman think I go unwilling.

And now Oxford was astir with footsteps and laughter-the laughter andquick footsteps of youths released from . Oxford is a plexus ofanomalies

And now Oxford was astir with footsteps and laughter-the laughter andquick footsteps of youths released from lecture-rooms. The Duke shiftedfrom the window. Oxford is a plexus ofanomalies. These two youths were (odd as it may seem to you) subject tothe same Statutes, affiliated to the same College, reading for the sameSchool; aye! and though the one had inherited half a score of noble andcastellated roofs, whose mere repairs cost him annually thousands andthousands of pounds, and the other's people had but one little meansquare of lead, from which the. fireworks of the Crystal Palace wereclearly visible every Thursday evening, in Oxford one roof shelteredboth of them.

Death cancels all engagements," in this morbidly funny satire of undergraduate life at Oxford

Death cancels all engagements," in this morbidly funny satire of undergraduate life at Oxford. When a beautiful magician swears she can love no man susceptible to her charms she sets off a dangerous taste for suicide among the college boys. Normally, when I start reading a book, I finish reading it, too. I tried getting through this one, but I had to give up midway. While the writing is brilliant in parts, it's tedious, mostly.

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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Zuleika Dobson, by Max Beerbohm. This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at ww. utenberg. Title: Zuleika Dobson or, An Oxford Love Story. Author: Max Beerbohm. Posting Date: November 25, 2008 Release Date: August, 1999. Produced by Judy Boss.

There have been arguments over the polarity of Max Beerbohm's sexuality; I have to say, this would seem an unusual novel to write if you didn't have at least some interest in women, although certainly Zuleika Dobson represents a rather nervous and overawed (if very funny) view of them. Then again, perhaps he was gay as a window and the whole mass suicide thing is meant to be a satire on heterosexual relationships. The book is a very different kind Beerbohm's only novel is a satire of university life at Oxford in the very early twentieth century.

Zuleika Dobson, Or, an Oxford Love Story (Dodo Press)

Zuleika Dobson, Or, an Oxford Love Story (Dodo Press)