The Flower Beneath the Foot

Being a Record of the Early Life of St. Laura de Nazianzi

Ronald Firbank (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

120 Seiten

2018
Picador (Verlag)
978-1-5098-8357-8 (ISBN)

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A ‘delightfully funny’ novel by ‘our first modernist novelist’ (according Alan Hollinghurst) – the story of a court on the eve of a royal wedding.

With an introduction by Alan Hollinghurst

At the fantastical court of King Willie and Her Dreaminess the Queen of Pisuerga, maid of honour Laura de Nazianzi and His Weariness Prince Yousef whisper promises to each other in the palace gardens. But Laura is destined for disappointment. The King and Queen have plans for a royal wedding for their Prince, and the young woman in their sights is none other than Princess Elsie of England. The court is all aflutter . . .

First published in 1923, Ronald Firbank's The Flower Beneath the Foot is a flamboyant court satire and lyrical tour de force of innuendo and eccentricity. Read by many as a subversive celebration of homosexuality, this is a classic of modernist literature from a stylist like no other.

Arthur Annesley Ronald Firbank was born in London in 1886. His writing has been championed by English novelists including E. M. Forster, Evelyn Waugh, Alan Hollinghurst and Simon Raven. He died in Rome in 1926 and is buried in the Campo Verano cemetery.

Erscheinungsdatum	08.09.2018
Reihe/Serie	Picador Classic
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	131 x 197 mm
Gewicht	155 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
ISBN-10	1-5098-8357-6 / 1509883576
ISBN-13	978-1-5098-8357-8 / 9781509883578
Zustand	Neuware