Book 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
.
