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RONALD FIRBANK

Complete Short Stories

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IN "Lambert Orme," one of the semi-fictional profiles in Some People, Harold Nicolson memorializes a figure closely modeled afer the young Ronald Firbank. "It would be impossible, I feel, to actually be as decadent as Lambert looked." His walk "was more than sinuous, it did more than undulate: it rippled." He "seemed a walking-talking Max Beerbohm version of himself," one of "the rotted rose leaves of the Yellow Book."

To this day the name Ronald Firbank too often provokes a snicker or a ...

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