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Ronald Firbank
"Sorrow in Sunlight" by way of Ronald Firbank is a fanciful and satirical novel that unfolds in a global of eccentric characters, set against the backdrop of an idyllic Mediterranean…
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The novel "Caprice" was written by English author Ronald Firbank, who is renowned for his unique and unusual writing style. A satirical work by Firbank, "Caprice" was published in 1917…
Tells the humorous and exotic stories of eccentric queens, princesses, and prelates, and a West Indian family seeking to make its way in society.
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Brigid Brophy
One of the most penetrating and sympathetic explorations ever undertaken by one writer into the mind of another, Prancing Novelist is far more than a simple tribute or work of…
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Neither her Gaudiness, the Mistress of the Robes, or her Dreaminess, the Queen were feeling quite themselves. In the Palace all was speculation. Would they be able to attend the…
This is a new release of the original 1924 edition.
Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Miss O'Brookomore became evasive. I want you to repress yourself a little for a few days. Be more discreet.Because —-Professor and Mrs. Cowsend have the rooms next ours……
Sarah Sinquier, living with her father and mother, a cathedral canon and his wife, in a town bursting with churches, is champing at the bit.
She has a dream: the…
Valmouth, a southern English coastal resort, has a generous supply of well-furnished and well-connected relics of society. Hare-Hatch House, inhabited by good friends Eulalia Hurstpierpoint and Elizabeth Thoroughfare, is one…
A novel that features the fairly young and entirely alive Mrs Shamefoot who wants nothing more than to have a memorial stained-glass window erected in her honour in an English…
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the "public…
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing’s Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because…
Three More Novels is a series of animated tableaux filled with beautiful, eccentric women pursuing pleasure in the most wicked, perverse, irresponsible ways, written by an extraordinary Englishman who dared…
Odette d'Antrevernes, a sheltered and enthusiastic young girl, lives with her widowed mother, her Creole nurse and their aged butler in an old grey chateau by the Loire. She receives…
Complementing Dalkey Archive’s edition of Firbank’s Complete Short Stories (published in 1990), Complete Plays makes available for the first time in one volume this inimitable British writer’s three excursions into…
