Dark Academia

One woman's beauty fells the whole of Oxford in this sidesplitting classic campus novel. 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, who duly adores her in return. Ever aware of appearances, however, Zuleika breaks the Duke's heart when she decides that she must abandon the match. The epidemic of heartache that proceeds to overcome the academic town makes for some of the best comic writing in the history of English literature.

Unter dem Einfluss ihres charismatischen Professors für Klassische Philologie entdeckt eine Gruppe kluger, exzentrischer Außenseiter an einem elitären College in Neuengland eine Denk- und Lebensweise, die Welten entfernt ist von der eintönigen Existenz ihrer Altersgenossen. Doch als sie die Grenzen der normalen Moral überschreiten, gleiten sie allmählich von Besessenheit in Korruption und Verrat und schließlich – unaufhaltsam – ins Böse ab.