Complete Short Stories

by Ronald Firbank

Book Overview

Best known for his witty, ingenious novels, Ronald Firbank began his literary apprenticeship as a writer of short stories (or "contes," as he called them), all of which are gathered here for the first time. They were written at a time when the literature of the decadent 1890s was maturing into the modernism of the early twentieth century, a growth reflected here as Firbank works through a variety of styles, genres, and voices, both imitating and subverting...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0916583600
• ISBN13: 9780916583606
• Release Date: September 1990
• Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
• Length: 170 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.