Collected Tales and Fantasies of Lord Berners
Subtitle: Including Percy Wallingford, the Camel, Mr. Pidger, Count Omega, the Romance of a Nose, Far from the Madding War
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Turtle Point Press
Published: June 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 434
ISBN-13: 9781885983381
Subjects: General & Literary Fiction; Short stories; Literary; Fiction - General; Fiction; Short Stories (single author); Gay
Description: A collection of witty tales by a British writer earlier this century. In Far from the Madding War, a woman in Oxford contributes to war work by ruining a valuable German Renaissance embroidery, while in The Romance of a Nose, Cleopatra considers plastic surgery.