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<p>In his delightful Collected Tales and Fantasies, the legendary eccentric English writer and composer Lord Berners (1883-1950) maintains a quiet grace, razor-sharp wit and unique sense of the absurd that is entirely sui generis. Berners offers an unforgettable cast of characters in these gem-like works of short Fiction collected here. In Far from the Madding War, set in Oxford during wartime, the heroine, Emmeline Pocock, looks like a nymph in one of the less licentious pictures of Fragonard, while in Count Omega we read of composer Emanuel Smith (based on William Walton), who becomes infatuated with a young giantess named Madame Gloria, who is guarded by a jealous millionaire's eunuch, and whose virtuosity on trombone seems to offer the perfect climax to the symphony Smith is composing. In The Camel, a baroque Victorian tale with utterly macabre undertones, a humped quadruped takes a Fancy for a vicar's wife, while in The Romance of the Nose, Cleopatra herself appears. And these are only some of the fanciful creations that populate these literary treasures!</p><h3>Library Journal</h3><p>This fiction collection is Turtle Points follow-up to Bernerss two autobiographical volumes,
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- Author
- Gerald Hugh Tyrwhitt-Wilson Berners; Gerald Hugh Tyrwhitt-W Berners
- Publisher
- New York: Turtle Point Press and Helen Marx Books
- Published
- 1999
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781885983381
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Short Stories
- Rating
- 4.17 / 5 (18 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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