Zuleika Dobson
by:
Max Beerbohm (author)
This Halcyon Classics ebook edition contains seventeen works by British novelist and caricaturist Max Beerbohm, including 'Zuleika Dobson.' Includes an active table of contents for easy navigation.Contents:Zuleika DobsonYet AgainA Christmas GarlandAnd Even NowJames PethelA.V. LaiderEnoch...
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This Halcyon Classics ebook edition contains seventeen works by British novelist and caricaturist Max Beerbohm, including 'Zuleika Dobson.' Includes an active table of contents for easy navigation.Contents:Zuleika DobsonYet AgainA Christmas GarlandAnd Even NowJames PethelA.V. LaiderEnoch SoamesHilary Maltby and Stephen Braxton‘Savonarola' BrownSavonarola, A TragedyDandies and DandiesA Good Prince1880King George The FourthThe Pervasion of RougePoor Romeo!Diminuendo
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Format: kindle
ASIN: B002ZVPSHW
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Humor,
Comedy,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Historical Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
Modern,
Modern Classics
An exquisite Edwardian oddity – a sort of magic-realist proto-campus-novel about paranoid sexual fantasy, as related by Beau Brummel or Oscar Wilde. Our eponymous heroine is a personification of feminine desirability – ‘the toast of two hemispheres’, she has already, before the novel begins, ‘rang...
My, my, my, my, my.Not one for the casual reader.Briefly: My, my, my, my, my.Less briefly: A tale told in high register, of arrogance and honor, the fine lines between conflicting emotions, irony, Oxford University, the righteous and the self-righteous, the femme fatale, fantasy meeting reality, ant...
WHY I WANT TO READ IT: I haven't read much Beerbohm, except for the odd essay here and there, and as this is his only novel, I want to try it. The premise sounds kind of dumb, but perhaps the writing will make up for it, or it'll be funnier than it sounds.
I understand this work was to have been a satire on university life in the Edwardian era, or perhaps a satire of upper class, but I found it a bit silly. Zuleika isn't much of a character to speak of, but maybe that was the point. At any rate, this is a requirement on the Modern Library Top 100, so ...
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