{"product_id":"zuleika-dobson-or-an-oxford-love-story-neversink","title":"Zuleika Dobson: Or  An Oxford Love Story (Neversink)","description":"\u003cp\u003eSir Henry Maximilian Max Beerbohm was  like his friend Oscar Wilde  such an acclaimed wit (and essayist  caricaturist  and parodist) that George Bernard Shaw dubbed him the incomparable Max. But Beerbohms comic masterpiece Zuleika Dobsonone of the Modern Librarys top 100 English-language novels of the twentieth centuryis the only novel he ever wrote.  Strangely out of print in the United States for years  this crackling farce is nonetheless as piercing and fresh as when it first appeared in 1911: a hilarious dismantling of academia and privilege  and a swashbuckling lampooning of class systems and notions of masculine virtue.  The all-male campus of OxfordBeerbohms alma materis a place where aesthetics holds sway above all else  and where witty intellectuals reign. Things havent changed for its privileged student body for years . . . until the beguiling music-hall prestidigitator Zuleika Dobson shows up.  The books marvelous prose dances along the line between reality and the absurd as students and dons alike fall at Zuleikas feet  and she cuts a wide swath across the campusuntil she encounters one young aristocrat for whom she is astonished to find she has feelings.  As Zuleika  and her creator  zero in on their targets  the book takes some surprising and dark twists on its way to a truly startling endingan ending so striking that readers will understand why Virginia Woolf said that Mr. Beerbohm in his way is perfect.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44963308044341,"sku":"ByrdShop_1612192920","price":64.27,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781612192925.jpg?v=1770411516","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/zuleika-dobson-or-an-oxford-love-story-neversink","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}