Collected Tales and Fantasies

Lord Berners

Here is a delightful collection of short fiction by the quirky, off-beat writer and composer Lord Berners. The volume includes the following novels: Percy Wallingford, The Camel, Mr. Pidger, Count Omega, The Romance of a Nose, and Far from the Madding War.

“Lord Berners may have been a dilettante and a practical joker, but he was a wise man all the same. Thank Turtle Point Press for allowing us to make his acquaintance.”
—Michael Dirda, The Washington Post

Fiction, English Literature, Humor, Music, 6 x 9, 444 pages, Paperback, $16.95, isbn 1-885983-38-7
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About the Author

Little known in the United States, Lord Berners (1883-1950) was a composer, novelist, painter and conspicuous aesthete. The character of Lord Merlin in Nancy Mitford’s The Pursuit of Love is patterned on Lord Berners, who would drop his pigeons into basins of magenta, green and ultramarine so that when released they resembled, as Mitford wrote, “a cloud of confetti in the sky.” Known as “The English Satie,” Berners as a composer collaborated with Sacheverell Sitwell, Gerturde Stein, and Serge Diaghilev.

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