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Vainglory: With Inclinations and Caprice Paperback - 2012
by 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.
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- Title Vainglory: With Inclinations and Caprice
- Author Ronald Firbank; Introduction by Richard Canning
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 404
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Group
- Date 2012-07-31
- ISBN 9780141196336 / 0141196335
- Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
- Dimensions 7.7 x 5 x 1 in (19.56 x 12.70 x 2.54 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects Humorous stories, English
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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