Sublime stuff from a great writer. Oxford was never so eloquently described, nor indeed so aptly skewered. Humourous observations galore, wicked dialogue abounds and the characters leap off the page. Zuleika, the conjuror is whimsy incarnate, Dorset, the Duke is appropriately effete, controlled and at once at bay with that thing called love. The undergraduates follow suit, like moths to a flame. Simply wonderful.