Jonathan Fryer re-examines the literary achievement of Firbank and provides an absorbing insight into his private and public life amongst Britain's literati at the turn of the Century. A radical and ingenious writer of the modernist school, Ronald Firbank's most influential novels include Vainglory (1915), Prancing Nigger (1924) and Valmouth (1918). His mark has also been realised in Evelyn Waugh's most Firbankian novel Vile Bodies, adapted for cinema by Stephen Fry in his latest box-office hit, Bright Young Things.
- ISBN10 0749083069
- ISBN13 9780749083069
- Publish Date 21 May 2008
- Publish Status Cancelled
- Out of Print 14 March 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Allison & Busby
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 288
- Language English