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Max beerbohms zuleika dobson in the chronicle xl, 3 spring, 1979, pp. Zuleika is an incredibly beautiful young woman, famous as a conjuror, who visits. Laced with memorable oneliners death cancels all engagements, utters the first casualty and inspired. A wickedly funny 1911 satire on undergraduate life in edwardian oxford in which the entire student body of oxford university including the young, handsome aristocrat the duke of dorset falls hopelessly in love with zuleika who is visiting her grandfather, the warden of judas college, and ultimately commit mass suicide at the end. Zuleika dobson by max beerbohm looking backward by edward bellamy the old wives tale by arnold bennett erema by r. Zuleika dobson is a brilliant edwardian satire on oxford life by one of english literatures most glittering wits that now reads as something much. Beerbohm, max 18721956 princeton university library.
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