early stories by the classic novelist
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Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
According to PW , "These entertaining vignettes, written between 1903 and 1908, are mosaics of fantasy, comedy and poetry that provide clues to Firbank's literary development, his influence on Waugh and Huxley, and the continuation of literary decadence and aestheticism into the 20th century."
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Review
"Firbank should be honored as a great master of 20th-century literature, one whose books taught narrative economy, lightness of touch and speed to a generation of writers, among them Evelyn Waugh, Henry Green and Anthony Powell. As an innovator and stylistic influence he stands to later English fiction precisely as early Hemingway does to American. . . . Firbank remains unremittingly, gloriously campy. This is a given, like Beckett's gloom and Borges's scholasticism, and a real reader wouldn't have him any other way. . . . [Firbank's stories] can be read again and again with ever-deepening pleasure. In the right mood they are very nearly the most amusing novels in the world." -- Michael Dirda, Washington Post Book World 12-16-90
"Firbank's early works . . . herald the completed novels of easily the most precious English stylist to find a publisher this century. . . . [F]lawless marvels of delicate pastoral satire." -- Kirkus Reviews 8-1-90
"Only now is Ronald Firbank beginning to receive credit for being among the most brilliant parodists of the British upper class and the developer of a highly original and influential modernist literary style. . . . Reading and rereading Firbank has always been profitable for me. There is always something new to be discovered in the work of this subtle, deceptively thoughtful writer." -- Harvey Pekar, San Diego Tribune 9-7-90
"This collection of youthful pieces . . . presents us with diverse components of what would become a masterpiece of orchestration: the style Firbank was to realize in his foreshortened maturity. . . . Tapping his own hidden vein of occult discipline, Firbank brought forth a style both loose-jointed and sure-footed, a mischievous, tender, stately melding and meshing of tones that offers a glass for viewing the Edwardian world as a Fairground of Folly. . . . This valuable and well-edited book is a restorative for lovers of Firbank and an eye-opener for both old and new acquaintances. If only the right, responsive eyes are guided back to his work, the first step in an important reassemblage may be underway." -- Donald Phelps, Chicago Tribune 9-17-90
"Firbank's early works . . . herald the completed novels of easily the most precious English stylist to find a publisher this century. . . . [F]lawless marvels of delicate pastoral satire." -- Kirkus Reviews 8-1-90
"Only now is Ronald Firbank beginning to receive credit for being among the most brilliant parodists of the British upper class and the developer of a highly original and influential modernist literary style. . . . Reading and rereading Firbank has always been profitable for me. There is always something new to be discovered in the work of this subtle, deceptively thoughtful writer." -- Harvey Pekar, San Diego Tribune 9-7-90
"This collection of youthful pieces . . . presents us with diverse components of what would become a masterpiece of orchestration: the style Firbank was to realize in his foreshortened maturity. . . . Tapping his own hidden vein of occult discipline, Firbank brought forth a style both loose-jointed and sure-footed, a mischievous, tender, stately melding and meshing of tones that offers a glass for viewing the Edwardian world as a Fairground of Folly. . . . This valuable and well-edited book is a restorative for lovers of Firbank and an eye-opener for both old and new acquaintances. If only the right, responsive eyes are guided back to his work, the first step in an important reassemblage may be underway." -- Donald Phelps, Chicago Tribune 9-17-90
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