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Vainglory by Firbank Ronald

ISBN: 9780141196336 PUBLISHER: Penguin FORMAT: PAPERBACK PAGES: 464 PUBLICATION DATE: 16.07.2012

DESCRIPTION: 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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