3 more novels / Ronald Firbank ; with an introduction by Ernest Jones.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Firbank, Ronald, 1886-1926.

Contributor:

Warhol, Andy, 1928-1987.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

New Directions paperbook

Standardized Title:

Novels. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Fiction.

Women.

Genre:

Fiction.

Novels.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)

Physical Description:

xx, 425 pages, 3 unnumbered pages : portrait ; 21 cm.

Other Title:

Three more novels

Vainglory

Inclinations

Caprice

Place of Publication:

New York : [New Directions Publishing Corporation], [1986.]

Summary:

So cleverly and wittily are the stories told that we sense we belong in the charmed café society of post-1918 Britain, and life seems, as Ernest Jones says in his critical introduction, "a Nirvana in which homosexuals are the ultimate chic and in which... almost everyone turns out to be at least bi-sexual." In Vainglory, Mrs. Shamefoot, who "almost compels a tear," embraces the quest for a cathedral stained-glass window "that should be a miracle of violet glass." InInclinations, Miss Brookomore, filled with longing for her companion, the "sunny" Miss Mabel Collins, travels to Greece where Mabel, rather treacherously, acquires a husband and baby. And in Caprice, Miss Sinquier flees her rural parents and the comfort of her black slippers ("all over little pearls with filigree butterflies that trembled above her toes") to pursue an acting career in bohemian London. To quote Mrs. Shamefoot describing a novelist clearly meant to be Firbank: "He has such a strange, peculiar style. His work calls to mind a frieze with figures of varying heights trotting all the same way. If one should by chance turn about it's usually merely to stare or to sneer or to make a grimace. Only occasionally his figures care to beckon. And they seldom really touch." Originally published in 1951, Three More Novels by Ronald Firbank is now reissued as a New Directions Paperbook.

Contents:

Vainglory

Inclinations

Caprice.

Notes:

"A New Directions Book"

"Originally published by arrangement with Coward, McCann, Inc., Great Britain in 1951."

"First published as New Directions Paperbook 614 in 1986."

"Second Printing"

Publisher's advertisements: [2] p. at end.

"Cover art by Andy Warhol; design by Denise Breslin."

ISBN:

081120975X

9780811209755

OCLC:

13124067