Caprice

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Synopsis:

Caprice by English author Ronald Firbank, first published in 1917, is considered by some critics to be his finest novel. It draws inspiration from his love of the theatre and his familiarity with both front- and back-stage operations. The plot...
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Unique Elements

• Detailed 20th Century Historical Timeline

Experience this timeless tale, where every page unfolds into a world of adventure and wonder.

Synopsis:

Caprice by English author Ronald Firbank, first published in 1917, is considered by some critics to be his finest novel. It draws inspiration from his love of the theatre and his familiarity with both front- and back-stage operations. The plot revolves around Sarah Sinquier, who escapes the monotony of the Deanery by selling her family's stolen silver to lease a theater and stage a revival of Romeo and Juliet with herself playing Juliet. The story is replete with lively characters, including Harold Weathercock, who is cast as Romeo, his close friend Noel Nice, Mrs. Smee, whose alcoholic actor husband is confused about which play he is performing in, and the cunning Mrs. Sixsmith, who encounters Sarah at the Café Royal and conspires with her lover Sir Oliver Dawtry to swindle her of her expected fortune. However, fate intervenes and produces a tragic end.

Excerpt:

'IN the Gazebo at the extremity of the garden, by the new parterre, Miss Sinquier, in a morning wrapper, was waiting for the post.

Through the trellis chinks, semicircular, showed the Close, with its plentiful, seasoned timber and sedate, tall houses, a stimulating sequence, architecturally, of whitewash, stone and brick.

Miss Sinquier stirred impatiently.

Wretch--! to deliver at the Palace before the Deanery, when the Deanery was as near!

"Shower down over there, Oh Lord, ten thousand fearsome bills," extemporaneously she prayed, "and spare them not at all; Amen."

Hierarchic hands shot upwards.

Dull skies.

She waited.

Through the Palace gates, at length, the fellow lurched, sorting as he came.

"Dolt!"

Her eyes devoured his bag.

Coiled round and round like some sleek snake her future slumbered in it.

Husband; lovers ... little lives, perhaps--yet to be ... besides voyages, bouquets, diamonds, chocolates, duels, casinos...!
She shivered.'

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