Ronald Firbank

3 More Novels: Vainglory, Inclinations, Caprice (1986)

The Flower Beneath the Foot: Being a Record of the Early Life of St. Laura de Nazianzi (2005)

This is an odd and relatively obscure book that some might find tedious—the plot doesn’t move too quickly, and narrative is not so much the point of the exercise, anyway: Firbank’s forte is establishing tone and aesthetic sensibility, and what a scandalously witty tone and over-the-top aesthetic...