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Firbank: Five Novels
by Ronald Firbank
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- Paperback
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- ISBN 10
- 0811207994
- ISBN 13
- 9780811207997
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About This Item
Paperback / softback. New. âA person who dislikes Ronald Firbank," quipped W. H. Auden, "may, for all I know, possess some admirable quality, but I do not wish ever to see him again." Edmund Wilson pronounced him "one of the finest writers of his period." Part high camp comedy of manners and part fairy tale, <em>Five Novels</em> by Ronald Firbank (1886-1926) is introduced by Osbert Sitwell. Firbank lived a life of exquisite, if lonely, leisure. He composed all his novels on postcards in his countless hotel rooms, always lavish with flowers. His moves were impulsiveââ"Tomorrow I go to Haiti. They say the President is a Perfect Dear!" ran one telegram to a surprised friend. At a dinner party given in his honor, the pathologically shy author refused to consume anything more than a single pea. His no less eccentric creations, Parvula de Panzoust and her guest Eulalia Thoroughfare of Valmouth, dine on "salmis of cocks'-combs saignant with Béchamel sauce." In <em>The Artificial Princess</em>, a queen with a passion for motoring roars about her realm for hours with her crown on. <em>The Flower Beneath the Foot</em>, <em>Prancing Nigger</em>, and <em>Concerning the Eccentricities of Cardinal Pirelli</em> are also included in this volume. "If only," concludes Sitwell, "we might have the joy of reading a new book from his pen, a book that would be so deliciously unlike any others in the world save his own." It is hoped that this collection will bring more readers that extraordinary experience.
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- The Saint Bookstore (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- B9780811207997
- Title
- Firbank: Five Novels
- Author
- Ronald Firbank
- Format/Binding
- Paperback / softback
- Book Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0811207994
- ISBN 13
- 9780811207997
- Publisher
- New Directions Publishing Corporation
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, U.s.a.
- This edition first published
- May 1, 1981
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