'My beauty! How I hate it!' sighed Zuleika. 'Still, here it is, and I must needs make the best of it.'' Zuleika Dobson - international socialite, luminous beauty and second-rate amateur magician - leaves a trail of broken hearts behind her wherever she goes. When she arrives at her grandfather's Oxford college, the entire student population is immediately smitten, including the Byronic and impossibly noble Duke of Dorset. But disaster looms for the fatally lovelorn undergraduates in Max Beerbohm's glittering, deliciously funny satire on the strange, enchanting and decadent world of pre-war Oxford life.