Classics · LightA glamorous young performer arrives at Oxford, where her grandfather is Warden of Judas College
Zuleika Dobson
by Max Beerbohm
A celebrated young performer arrives at an all-male Oxford college
Zuleika Dobson is a glamorous young prestidigitator and former governess who arrives in Oxford, where her grandfather is Warden of Judas College. Her beauty captivates the male students, and the Duke of Dorset, a snobbish and emotionally detached undergraduate, becomes deeply infatuated with her. The novel satirizes undergraduate life in Edwardian Oxford. Heinemann published it on 26 October 1911, and it is Beerbohm's only novel.
More about this book
Who
Zuleika Dobson, the Duke of Dorset, Noaks and the Warden of Judas College.
World
Oxford University in the Edwardian era.
What makes it different
Beerbohm wrote it between 1898 and 1910 and considered it the work of an essayist rather than a novelist. It contains the line "Death cancels all engagements."
Feel
Arch and witty.
Page count and cover shown for: Selected edition
Further reading
- Zuleika DobsonWikipedia