# Vainglory

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- Book: [Vainglory](https://www.bookquiver.com/ronald-firbank/vainglory) ([Vainglory.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/ronald-firbank/vainglory.md))
- Authors: [Ronald Firbank](https://www.bookquiver.com/ronald-firbank)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4196-717-2
- Published: 2012-05-31
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

The fairly young and entirely alive Mrs Shamefoot wants nothing more than to have a memorial stained-glass window erected in her honour in an English cathedral. From this premise, the inimitable Ronald Firbank extends his witty, eccentric Vainglory , with a crowded cast of hilariously drawn characters - Winsome Brooks, Lady Anne Pantry, Miss Wookie, Mrs Barrow of Dawn and Mrs Steeple - a riot of parties, and a bottomless sense of the ridiculous. Admired by Auden, Forster and Waugh, Firbank's fine comic skill, quick-fire dialogue and descriptive flights of fancy are perfectly captured in Vainglory , his first and longest novel, as well as in two novellas included here: Inclinations and Caprice .