Vainglory: with Inclinations and Caprice (Penguin Classics)

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.