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    Valmouth is a 1919 novel by British author Ronald Firbank. Valmouth is an imaginary English spa resort that attracts centenarians owing to its famed pure air. The town's name evokes actual seaside towns in the southwest peninsula of Britain, such as Falmouth, Dartmouth, Teignmouth, Exmouth and Weymouth.

  2. Buy Valmouth and Other Novels (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) by Firbank, Ronald from Amazon's Fiction Books Store. Everyday low prices on a huge range of new releases and classic fiction.

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  3. Valmouth (1919), Prancing Nigger (1924) and Concerning the Eccentricities of Cardinal Pirelli (1926): three novellas of varying quality. If Firbank’s salaciousness was the issue in the 1920s, then today’s problem is the racial stereotypes and expressions.

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  4. Arthur Annesley Ronald Firbank (17 January 1886 – 21 May 1926) was an innovative English novelist. His eight short novels, partly inspired by the London aesthetes of the 1890s, especially Oscar Wilde, consist largely of dialogue, with references to religion, social-climbing, and sexuality.

  5. Valmouth is one of Firbank's most dazzling novels. Set in an English seaside health resort where the air promotes extraordinary longevity, Valmouth is dominated by the exotic and...

  6. Widely considered to be Firbank's finest novel, Valmouth (1919) is set in a fictional coastal town in the West of England, where the air is so glorious that the population is mainly composed of over-sexed centenarians.

  7. 1 de set. de 1992 · Valmouth and Other Novels by Ronald Firbank, September 1, 1992, Penguin Classics edition, in English