Arthur Annesley Ronald Firbank was born in London in 1886 and was an experimental novelist. Throughout his career he has been championed by English novelists including E.M. Forster, Evelyn Waugh, Alan Hollinghurst and Simon Raven, writing novels such as Valmouth and The Flower Beneath the Foot and six other short novels. He died in Rome in 1926 and is buried in the Campo Verano cemetery.
Novela inglesa retrata com fino humor a decadência e frivolidade da alta sociedade do início do século XXEm Imodéstia, a descoberta de um fragmento original de Safo, célebre poeta grega, motiva a sra. Henedge, uma pomposa aristocrata, a organizar um jantar suntuoso para revelar o...
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