Zuleika Dobson, or, An Oxford love story

By Sir Max Beerbohm

Subjects: English College stories, Young women, University of Oxford in fiction, England, fiction, FICTION / Classics, FICTION / Humorous, English Love stories, FICTION / Literary, Romance fiction, Young women in fiction, College students in fiction, Young women, fiction, Fiction, christian, classic & allegory, Fiction, Man-woman relationships, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, romance, general, Classic Literature, College students

Description: That old bell, presage of a train, had just sounded through Oxford station; and the undergraduates who were waiting there, gay figures in tweed or flannel, moved to the margin of the platform and gazed idly up the line. Young and careless, in the glow of the afternoon sunshine, they struck a sharp note of incongruity with the worn boards they stood on, with the fading signals and grey eternal walls of that antique station, which, familiar to them and insignificant, does yet whisper to the tourist the last enchantments of the Middle Age.