Author: Max Beerbohm
Title: Zuleika Dobson, or an Oxford Love Story
Description: London, William Heinemann, 1911 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Max Beerbohm's first and only novel, a satirical tale surrounding the titular character's experiences at Oxford University. The first edition. Rebound in a striking striped cloth.'Zuleika Dobson' was the first and only novel of English essayist Max Beerbohm, who viewed the endeavour as "the work of a leisurely essayist amusing himself with a narrative idea". Set largely in the world of Oxford University, this novel tells the story of femme fatale Zuleika Dobson, who finds herself causing mayhem in this somewhat hostile, male-dominated environment.Beerbohm presents an amusing satire of undergraduate life, with a number of chaotic events happening in the wake of Dobson's arrival, with the novel concluding with her boarding a train..bound for Cambridge. Rebound in striped cloth. Endpapers renewed and half title retained. Externally, very smart, with light rubbing to cloth. A few spots to fore edge. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright, with light scattered spotting, mainly to the first and last few pages. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .

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