Fonthill;

The Story

"Mr. Menen has chosen for his hero William Beckford, whose private life and scandalizing nineteenth-century fantasy Vanthek, shocked the sensibilities of all Britain... Certainly no whim could have attracted more attention than Foothill, the grandiose abbey that Beckford built and within whose walls nameless vices were allegedly practiced. Yet this novel offers a picture of the supposed satyr that is at striking variance with the popular image. For Aubrey Menen's Beckford is a charming Peter Pan who has refused to grow up. And the devotion he inspired in Lady Margaret Gordon, his innocent wife, and in Franchi, his not so innocent lover, is as fine a monument as the abbey itself."--Dust jacket.

A hardcover edition from 1974 of Fonthill; by Aubrey Menen. It runs to 223 pages, in very good condition. We hold one copy, so once it is gone it is gone. Shelved under Literature & Fiction. Wrapped with care for collectors and shipped from Kuwait.