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Zuleika Dobson; Or, An Oxford Love Story

by Sir Max Beerbohm

Zuleika Dobson an Oxford love story is a satirical novel by Max Beerbohm, an English essayist, parodist, and caricaturist under the signature Max. He first became known in the 1890s as a dandy and a humorist. 

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 of 'Eights Week'.