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Ronald Firbank

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in The United Kingdom

January 17, 1886

Died

May 21, 1926

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British novelist Ronald Firbank was born in London, the son of society lady Harriet Jane Garrett and MP Sir Thomas Firbank. He went to Uppingham School, and then on to Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He converted to Catholicism in 1907. In 1909 he left Cambridge, without completing a degree.
Living off his inheritance he travelled around Spain, Italy, the Middle East, and North Africa. Ronald Firbank died of lung disease while in Rome.

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	The Flower Beneath the Foot: Being a Record of the Early Life of St. Laura de Nazianzi 3.54 avg rating — 130 ratings — published 1923 — 56 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Firbank: Five Novels 3.65 avg rating — 107 ratings — published 1949 — 26 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Concerning the Eccentricities of Cardinal Pirelli 3.21 avg rating — 107 ratings — published 1926 — 32 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Caprice 3.04 avg rating — 90 ratings — published 1917	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	3 More Novels: Vainglory, Inclinations, Caprice by Ronald Firbank, Ernest Jones (Introduction) 3.46 avg rating — 71 ratings — published 1915 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Valmouth and Other Novels 3.24 avg rating — 67 ratings — published 1919 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Prancing Nigger by Ronald Firbank, Robert E. Locher (Illustrator), Carl van Vechten (Foreword) 3.31 avg rating — 61 ratings — published 1924 — 39 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Valmouth 2.88 avg rating — 58 ratings — published 1919	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Complete Firbank 4.62 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 1961 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Artificial Princess by Ronald Firbank, Coleridge Kennard (Introduction) 4.04 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 1934 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“The world is disgracefully managed, one hardly knows to whom to complain.”
― Ronald Firbank, Vainglory

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“Mentally, perhaps she was already three parts glass. So intense was her desire to set up a commemorative window to herself that, when it was erected, she believed she must leave behind in it, for ever, a little ghost. And should this be so, then what joy to be pierced each morning with light; her body flooded through and through by the sun, or in the evening to glow with a harvest of dark colours, deepening into untold sadness with the night....
What ecstasy! It was the Egyptian sighing for his pyramid, of course.”
― Ronald Firbank, 3 More Novels: Vainglory, Inclinations, Caprice

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“I adore italics, don't you?”
― Ronald Firbank

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