Zuleika Dobson: An Oxford Love Story

NOTE to the 1922 edition

I was in Italy when this book was first published.  A year later (1912) I visited London, and I found that most of my friends and acquaintances spoke to me of Zu-like-a —­ a name which I hardly recognised and thoroughly disapproved.  I had always thought of the lady as Zu-leek-a.  Surely it was thus that Joseph thought of his Wife, and Selim of his Bride?  And I do hope that it is thus that any reader of these pages will think of Miss Dobson.

M.B. 
Rapallo, 1922.

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