{"product_id":"9781885983381","title":"Collected Tales and Fantasies","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 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!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Turtle Point Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47039224742128,"sku":"9781885983381","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781885983381_p0.jpg?v=1763605639","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781885983381","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}