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Author: Firbank, Ronald
ISBN: 9780141196336

de Ronald Firbank; Introduction by Richard Canning

The cult favorite absurdist comedy by a writer who inspired Wilde, Forster, and Waugh.

The fairly young and entirely alive Mrs. Shamefoot wants nothing more than to have a memorial stained-glass window installed in her honor in an English cathedral. From this premise, the inimitable Ronald Firbank extends his witty, eccentric Vainglory, with a crowded cast of hilariously drawn characters-Winsome Brooks, Lady Anne Pantry, Miss Wookie, Mrs. Barrow of Dawn, and Mrs. Steeple, among others-a riot of parties, and a bottomless sense of the ridiculous. Firbank's fine comic skill, quick-fire dialogue, and descriptive flights of fancy are perfectly captured in Vainglory, his first and longest novel, as well as in two novellas included here, Inclinations and Caprice.

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The cult favorite absurdist comedy by a writer who inspired Wilde, Forster, and Waugh

The fairly young and entirely alive Mrs. Shamefoot wants nothing more than to have a memorial stained-glass window installed in her honor in an English cathedral. From this premise, the inimitable Ronald Firbank extends his witty, eccentric Vainglory, with a crowded cast of hilariously drawn characters—Winsome Brooks, Lady Anne Pantry, Miss Wookie, Mrs. Barrow of Dawn, and Mrs. Steeple, among others—a riot of parties, and a bottomless sense of the ridiculous. Firbank's fine comic skill, quick-fire dialogue, and descriptive flights of fancy are perfectly captured in Vainglory, his first and longest novel, as well as in two novellas included here, Inclinations and Caprice.

Información de la editorial

Ronald Firbank (1886–1926) wrote Valmouth, The Princess Zabaroff, The Flower Beneath the Foot, Sorrow in Sunlight, and Concerning the Eccentricities of Cardinal Pirelli, among other works.

Richard Canning has edited several anthologies of gay fiction and was the recipient of the 2005 Editors Choice Award from the Lambda Literary Foundation.

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Título Vainglory: With Inclinations and Caprice
Autor Ronald Firbank; Introduction by Richard Canning
Encuadernación Tapa blanda
Edición Reprint
Páginas 404
Volúmenes 1
Idioma ENG
Editorial Penguin Group
Fecha de publicación 2012-07-31
ISBN 9780141196336 / 0141196335
Peso 0.7 libras (0.32 kg)
Dimensiones 7.7 x 5 x 1 pulgadas (19.56 x 12.70 x 2.54 cm)
Época de 18 a UP años
Cursos 13 - UP
Library of Congress subjects Humorous stories, English
Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Ronald Firbank (1886-1926) wrote Valmouth, The Princess Zabaroff, The Flower Beneath the Foot, Sorrow in Sunlight, and Concerning the Eccentricities of Cardinal Pirelli, among other works.

Richard Canning has edited several anthologies of gay fiction and was the recipient of the 2005 Editors Choice Award from the Lambda Literary Foundation.

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