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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