Collected Tales and Fantasies of Lord Berners: Including Percy Wallingford, the Camel, Mr. Pidger, Count Omega, the Romance of a Nose, Far from the Madding War
Berners, Gerald Hugh Tyrwhitt-Wilson
Language: English
Published by Turtle Point Pr, 1999
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- Title
- Collected Tales and Fantasies of Lord Berners: Including Percy Wallingford, the Camel, Mr. Pidger, Count Omega, the Romance of a Nose, Far from the Madding War
- Author
- Berners, Gerald Hugh Tyrwhitt-Wilson
- Publisher
- Turtle Point Pr
- Publication year
- 1999
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- 46097642
- Signed
- 8/14/2026 7:27:35 AM
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1885983387
- ISBN 13
- 9781885983381
- Edition
- 1786692455.
- Seller catalogs
- 1, 9781885983381, U
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!
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