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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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Main Author:	Firbank, Ronald, 1886-1926 (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Norfolk, Connecticut : New Directions, [1949?]
Subjects:	Manners and customs > Fiction. Manners and customs. Fiction. Gay fiction. Novels.

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