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The Flower Beneath the Foot: Being a Record of the Early Life of St. Laura de Nazianzi by Ronald Firbank
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
With an introduction by Alan HollinghurstNeither her Gaudiness the Mistress of the Robes, or her Dreaminess the Queen were feeling quite themselves. In the Palace all was speculation . . .Ronald Firbank, described by Alan Hollinghurst as 'one of the most important figures in British fiction in the twent ...Show more
Three More Novels - Vainglory, Inclinations, Caprice by Ronald Firbank
Category: Fiction
So cleverly and wittily are the stories told that we sense we belong in the charmed café society of post-1918 Britain, and life seems, as Ernest Jones says in his critical introduction, a Nirvana in which homosexuals are the ultimate chic and in which... almost everyone turns out to be at least bi-sexua ...Show more
Vainglory by Ronald Firbank
Category: Fiction
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 ...Show more
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