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В каноне кэмпа Сьюзен Зонтаг поставила "Зулейку Добсон" на первое место, в списке лучших английских романов по версии газеты The Guardian она находится на сороковой позиции, в списке шедевров Modern Library – на 59-ой. Этой книгой восхищались Ивлин Во, Вирджиния Вулф, Э.М. Форстер. В 2011 году Зулейке исполнилось сто лет, и только сейчас она заговорила по-русски. Ангелица мщения, посланная сословием гувернанток, истребляет сословие благородное и благонравное за безупречность его манер и бесконечность его ада. Все юноши влюблены в Зулейку и сулят ей баснословные дары, она же к ним равнодушна, поскольку не может влюбиться в того, кто…

Nobody could predict the consequences when ravishing Zuleika Dobson arrives at Oxford, to visit her grandfather, the college warden. Formerly a governess, she has landed on the occupation of prestidigitator, and thanks to her overwhelming beauty - and to a lesser extent her professional talents - she takes the town by storm, gaining admittance to her grandfather's college. It is there, at the institution inspired by Beerbohm's own alma mater, that she falls in love with the Duke of Dorset.

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Zuleika, the dazzling offspring of a curate and a circus-rider, is the grand-daughter of the Warden of Judas College, Oxford. On her visit to the city during Eights Week, her beauty wreaks havoc. Attracted only ‘to men who would not bow down to her’, Zuleika is disappointed in her quest for one whom she could adore. To a man, the undergraduates fall madly in love with her, including the Duke of Dorset, a splendid young Apollo who seems the likeliest candidate. His vow to lay down his life for her has unpredictable consequences. Max Beerbohm (1872–1956) was educated at Charterhouse and Merton College, Oxford, and is best known as a humorist,…

Beerbohm's satire of undergraduate life at Oxford, "Zuleika Dobson", first published in 1911, is a classic work whose neglect is sure to remedied by this republication in the Modern Library.