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Zuleika Dobson : An Oxford Love Story - 9781981853328

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Zuleika Dobson, full title Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story, is a 1911 novel by Max Beerbohm, a satire of undergraduate life at Oxford. It was his only novel, but was nonetheless very successful. This satire includes the famous line "Death cancels all engagements" and presents a corrosive view of Edwardian Oxford. In 1998, the Modern Library ranked Zuleika Dobson 59th on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. The book largely employs a third-person narrator limited to the character of Zuleika (pronounced "Zu-lee-ka," not "Zu-like-a"), then shifting to that of the Duke, then halfway through the novel suddenly becoming a first-person narrator who claims inspiration from the Greek Muse Clio, with his all-seeing narrative perspective provided by Zeus. This allows the narrator to also see the ghosts of notable historical visitors to Oxford, who are present but otherwise invisible to the human characters at certain times in the novel, adding an element of the supernatural. Dr Robert Mighall in his Afterword to the New Centenary Edition of Zuleika (Collector's Library, 2011), writes: "Zuleika is of the future... [Beerbohm] anticipates an all-too-familiar feature of the contemporary scene: the D-list talent afforded A-list media attention." Beerbohm began writing the book in 1898, finishing in 1910, with Heinemann publishing it 26 October 1911. He saw it was not as a novel, rather "the work of a leisurely essayist amusing himself with a narrative idea." Sydney Castle Roberts wrote a parody Zuleika in Cambridge (1941).


  • | Author: Max Beerbohm
  • | Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • | Publication Date: Dec 18, 2017
  • | Number of Pages: 142 pages
  • | Language: English
  • | Binding: Paperback
  • | ISBN-10: 1981853324
  • | ISBN-13: 9781981853328
Author:
Max Beerbohm
Publisher:
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Publication Date:
Dec 18, 2017
Number of pages:
142 pages
Language:
English
Binding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
1981853324
ISBN-13:
9781981853328