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The narrative centers on Miss Sarah Sinquier, an effete and theatrical young woman living in a cathedral Close, whose restless imagination and stage-affected performances animate a cast of clergy, family, and fashionable neighbors. Episodic scenes blend camp pastiche and playful mimicry of exotic and romantic types with satirical vignettes about parish ritual, social ambition, and domestic tedium. The prose relies on ornate, fragmentary dialogue and decorative description to lampoon manners and the performative aspects of faith and society.

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Title: Caprice

Author: Ronald Firbank

Illustrator: Augustus John

Release date: February 19, 2023 [eBook #70073]

Language: English

Original publication: United Kingdom: Grant Richards, 1917

Credits: Tim Lindell, Barry Abrahamsen, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.)

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CAPRICE
BY
RONALD FIRBANK
With a Frontispiece by Augustus John
LONDON
GRANT RICHARDS LTD.
ST MARTIN’S STREET
LEICESTER SQUARE
MDCCCCXVII

PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN BY
THE GARDEN CITY PRESS LTD., LETCHWORTH

TO
STEPHEN HAMMERTON
Τίς δ’ ἀγροιῶτίς τοι θελγει νόον,
οὐκ ἐπισταμένα τὰ βράκε’ ἔλκην ἐπὶ τῶν σφύρων.—Sappho.