Tells the stories of an elderly woman's obsession with acquiring a cathedral stained-glass window, a woman whose best friend marries an Italian count, and a minister's daughter who runs away to London
From Publishers WeeklyA girl runs away to London's theatrical bohemia in Firbank's (1886-1926) comic novel. Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
“A person who dislikes Ronald Firbank," quipped W. H. Auden, "may, for all I know, possess some admirable quality, but I do not wish ever to see him again." Edmund Wilson pronounced him "one of the fi
