The Flower Beneath the Foot
The Flower Beneath the Foot

Author: Ronald Firbank

Publisher: Picador

Published: 2018-07-10

Total Pages: 147

ISBN-13: 1760781517

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With an introduction by Alan Hollinghurst Neither 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 twentieth century’, first published The Flower Beneath the Foot in 1923. Set on the eve of a royal wedding at the fantastical court of King Willie and Her Dreaminess the Queen of Pisuerga, this is an absurd and often melancholy tale of love. An innovative and much-praised novelist, Ronald Firbank has earned his place in the ‘canon of camp’ and continues to dazzle in this unmissable cult classic.

The flower beneath the foot
The flower beneath the foot

Author: R. Firbank

Publisher: Рипол Классик

Published: 1940

Total Pages: 231

ISBN-13: 5875855517

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Being a record of the early life of St. Laura de Nazianzi and the times in which she lived.

Vainglory
Vainglory

Author: Ronald Firbank

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2012-05-31

Total Pages: 480

ISBN-13: 014196717X

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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.

Five Novels
Five Novels

Author: Ronald Firbank

Publisher: New Directions Publishing

Published: 1949

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 9780811207997

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Tells the humorous and exotic stories of eccentric queens, princesses, and prelates, and a West Indian family seeking to make its way in society.

Sorrow in Sunlight
Sorrow in Sunlight

Author: Ronald Firbank

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2023-10-12

Total Pages: 110

ISBN-13: 3387099908

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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.

Mawrdew Czgowchwz
Mawrdew Czgowchwz

Author: James McCourt

Publisher: New York Review of Books

Published: 2002-02-01

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 0940322978

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Diva Mawrdew Czgowchwz (pronounced "Mardu Gorgeous") bursts like the most brilliant of comets onto the international opera scene, only to confront the deadly malice and black magic of her rivals. Outrageous and uproarious, flamboyant and serious as only the most perfect frivolity can be, James McCourt's entrancing send-up of the world of opera has been a cult classic for more than a quarter-century. This comic tribute to the love of art is a triumph of art and love by a contemporary American master.

The Swimming-Pool Library
The Swimming-Pool Library

Author: Alan Hollinghurst

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2011-09-21

Total Pages: 413

ISBN-13: 030780660X

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The dazzling first novel from the best-selling, Booker Prize-Winning author of The Line of Beauty and The Sparsholt Affair. An enthralling, darkly erotic novel of homosexuality before the scourge of AIDS; an elegy, possessed of chilling clarity, for ways of life that can no longer be lived with impunity. The Swimming-Pool Library focuses on the friendship of two men: William Beckwith, a young gay aristocrat who leads a life of privilege and promiscuity, and Lord Nantwich, an elderly man searching for someone to write his biography and inherit his traditions.

Once in a House on Fire
Once in a House on Fire

Author: Andrea Ashworth

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Published: 2014-12-15

Total Pages: 350

ISBN-13: 1447275136

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With an introduction by Eimear McBride A devastatingly powerful, moving and uplifting memoir - now a classic of its genre - that inspired others to tell their own true life stories. When our stepfather staggered home reeking of whisky, ceramic hit the wall. We got used to the smash and the next-day stain, but eventually the wallpaper began to fade . . . For Andrea Ashworth, home is not a place of comfort and solace, but of violence and fear. Her father died when she was five, leaving her close-knit, loving family to battle with poverty, abuse and the long shadow of depression. But from the ashes of 1970s Manchester and the hardships of her coming-of-age in the late 1980s, Andrea finds the courage to rise . . . Written with eye-opening honesty, rare beauty and intense power, Once in a House on Fire is a ground-breaking memoir, endearing in its humour and compassion, and life-affirming in its portrait of terrible circumstances triumphantly overcome.

Valmouth
Valmouth

Author: Ronald 1886-1926 Firbank

Publisher: Hassell Street Press

Published: 2021-09-09

Total Pages: 152

ISBN-13: 9781014055385

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