Five novels / Ronald Firbank ; with an introduction by Osbert Sitwell.
Satirical works featuring outcasts from early 20th Century. His last and most explicitly gay work, Concerning the Eccentricities of Cardinal Pirelli, appeared in 1926, the same year as Firbank's early death at the age of forty. The book begins with the cardinal baptizing a police puppy named Cr...
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| Language: | English |
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Norfolk, Connecticut :
New Directions,
[1949?]
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| Summary: | Satirical works featuring outcasts from early 20th Century. His last and most explicitly gay work, Concerning the Eccentricities of Cardinal Pirelli, appeared in 1926, the same year as Firbank's early death at the age of forty. The book begins with the cardinal baptizing a police puppy named Crack, and ends when the naked cardinal ("elementary now as Adam himself") drops dead while pursuing a choirboy named Chicklet around his church [Corinne E. Blackmer, GLBTQ Encyclopedia]. |
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| Item Description: | The Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy was acquired as part of The Don Kelly Research Collection of Gay Literature and Culture. |
| Physical Description: | xxxi, 471 pages : portrait ; 23 cm |
| ISBN: | 0811207994 9780811207997 |