Bücher von Ronald Firbank

The novel "Caprice" was written by English author Ronald Firbank, who is renowned for his unique and unusual writing style. A satirical work by Firbank, "Caprice" was published in 1917 and humorously and absurdly examines the lives of the upper class. The lifestyles of strange characters in a made-up European location are the focus of this satirical comedy book. The wit, colourful language, and dialogue-based style of Firbank's writing all work together to highlight the ridiculousness of society rules and customs. In "Caprice," he uses a sequence of short stories and scenes to create a striking image of a society in which social mores are both distorted and violated. All things considered, "Caprice" is a scathing and humorous examination of the customs and peculiarities of the upper class, delivered with Firbank's distinct literary flare. "Caprice" is a thought-provoking and enjoyable book for those who enjoy satire and unique storytelling.

"Sorrow in Sunlight" by way of Ronald Firbank is a fanciful and satirical novel that unfolds in a global of eccentric characters, set against the backdrop of an idyllic Mediterranean hotel. Firbank, acknowledged for his one-of-a-kind and avant-garde writing fashion, crafts a story this is both comedic and notion-frightening. The story revolves round a group of colorful and whimsical those who find themselves entangled in a series of absurd and funny conditions. Firbank's prose is marked by means of its wit and irony as he skewers societal norms and conventions with a playful and irreverent contact. The characters in "Sorrow in Sunlight" are brought to lifestyles with Firbank's feature aptitude for talk and description. The novel explores topics of love, desire, and the quirks of human behavior, offering a unique and satirical angle at the social mores of the time. Firbank's narrative style is regularly defined as modernist, and "Sorrow in Sunlight" showcases his potential to test with language and shape. The novel is a delightful combination of farce and social observation, inviting readers into an international wherein the absurdity of existence is well known and puzzled in identical measure.

Valmouth, a southern English coastal resort, has a generous supply of well-furnished and well-connected relics of society. Hare-Hatch House, inhabited by good friends Eulalia Hurstpierpoint and Elizabeth Thoroughfare, is one of the great centres of local social attention. Coming on a visit, Lady Parvula de Panzoust encounters members of several castes there, ranging from the Tooke family who are in service, through the omnipresent exotic masseuse-cum-herbalist Mrs Yajñavalkya, to those of her own status who buzz around the house gossiping and defaming, hinting and declaiming, each other's secret business and hidden predilections always the tasty subject. Indeed, Parvula herself is on something of a private mission of an amatory nature!As the season progresses, the question of who will marry Mrs Thoroughfare's son Dick, just returned from the sea, becomes an absorbing question. Will young Thetis Tooke, single-minded and passionate, recapture his attention permanently? Or will Mrs Yajñavalkya's protégé Niri-Esther steal his favour? The already agitated currents begin to stir forcefully...Valmouth, Ronald Firbank's celebrated fourth novel, was first published in 1919. Its waves of exclamatory dialogue, eccentric description and outrageous characters confirmed his unique position as high-camp chronicler of his age in all its hilarious, sharp-tongued erraticism.

Odette d'Antrevernes, a sheltered and enthusiastic young girl, lives with her widowed mother, her Creole nurse and their aged butler in an old grey chateau by the Loire. She receives regular visits from the old Curé of Bois-Fleuri, who tells her thrilling stories of Bernadette and her vision of the Holy Virgin in the mountains. One day Odette decides that she too must seek the Holy Virgin. With the house deadly quiet in the middle of the night, she steals secretly out into the garden, but events do not run as she expects. By morning, what has happened there will have changed her life forever...