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β¦ LIBER β¦
Vainglory: with, Inclinations and Caprice
β Scribed by Ronald Firbank; Richard Canning
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Year
- 2012
- Tongue
- en-GB
- Weight
- 250 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 014196717X
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β¦ Synopsis
The fairly young and entirely alive Mrs Shamefoot wants nothing more than to have a memorial stained-glass window erected in her honour 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 - a riot of parties, and a bottomless sense of the ridiculous. Admired by Auden, Forster and Waugh, 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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