'The Flower Beneath The Foot', 'Prancing Nigger', 'Valmouth', 'The Artificial Princess', 'Concerning the Eccentricities of Cardinal Pirelli', all complete – social satire and ironic observations from the first quarter of the twentieth century, said to have been written a few words at a time on postcards, and that prompted E. M. Forster to write 'the task of critically analysing Firbank's fiction is akin to breaking a butterfly upon a wheel'.
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