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Merritt, James Douglas. RONALD FIRBANK. TWAYNE'S ENGLISH AUTHORS SERIES 93.
Twayne, New York, 1969.
148 pp, 8vo (8 1/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. "Firbank was a very serious writer whose witty novels have, to a large degree, been appreciated only by a small band of admirers who delighted in his peculiarly distorted view of the world. His ch aracters are among the most remarkable in English fiction; they are all beautiful grotesques, always exaggerated, but always appealing. His settings range from an 'imaginary Vienna' to the deserts of Africa and the streets of New York - a New Y o r k , incidentally, which was the product of Firbank's imagination, for its streets are lined with flowering trees and the sun always shines upon it from an unique lilac-colored sky....He is, according to one critic of contemporary culture, a p er fe ct e xa mple of 'camp'. This book studies Firbank's literary achievements, compares and contrasts him with his better-known contemporaries, provides a brief biography, and reviews the scholary material available for study. Its chief prupo se is , n eve rth ele ss, to introduce many new readers to the wonderful novels of Ronald Firbank." Dust jacket has light edge wear/rubbing, minor soiling, minor wrinkle at top of front flap. Near Fine/Very Good
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12.50 USD
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