{"product_id":"9780141196336","title":"Vainglory: With Inclinations and Caprice","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe cult favorite absurdist comedy by a writer who inspired Wilde, Forster, and Waugh\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe fairly young and entirely alive Mrs. Shamefoot wants nothing more than to have a memorial stained-glass window installed in her honor in an English cathedral. From this premise, the inimitable Ronald Firbank extends his witty, eccentric \u003ci\u003eVainglory\u003c\/i\u003e, with a crowded cast of hilariously drawn characters—Winsome Brooks, Lady Anne Pantry, Miss Wookie, Mrs. Barrow of Dawn, and Mrs. Steeple, among others—a riot of parties, and a bottomless sense of the ridiculous. Firbank's fine comic skill, quick-fire dialogue, and descriptive flights of fancy are perfectly captured in\u003ci\u003eVainglory\u003c\/i\u003e, his first and longest novel, as well as in two novellas included here, \u003ci\u003eInclinations\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eCaprice\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47008519258352,"sku":"9780141196336","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780141196336_p0.jpg?v=1763655124","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780141196336","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}