Zuleika Dobson

Zuleika Dobson is a 1911 novel by Max Beerbohm, a satire of undergraduate life at Oxford. It was his only novel.

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1911 - Max Beerbohm - Oxford

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Zuleika Dobson is a stunningly beautiful young woman, a true femme fatale, who is a conjurer by profession. Zuleika manages to gain entrance to the privileged, all-male domain of Oxford University when she visits her grandfather, the Warden of Judas College ( based on Merton College, Oxford, Beerbohm's alma mater). There she entices all the men in college with her looks; however, as she feels that she cannot love anyone unless he is impervious to her charms, she rejects her suitors and any number of them are driven to suicide.

Related Topics:
Femme fatale - Conjurer - Oxford University - Merton College, Oxford - Suicide

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This satire includes such wonderful lines as "Death cancels all engagements" and presents an wickedly funny view of Edwardian Oxford.

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