Snooty Baronet (Masterplots II: British and Commonwealth Fiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Wyndham Lewis
- First Published: 1932
- Type of Work: Social satire
- Time of Work: The 1920’s
- Setting: New York, London, Provence, and Persia
- Principal Characters: Sir Michael Kell-Imrie (Snooty), Captain Humphrey (Humph) Cooper Carter, Valerie (Val) Ritter, Lily Tagel, Bob McPhall, Pat Bostock, Ali Akbar
- Genres: Long fiction, Satire
- Subjects: New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, France or French people, Love or romance, Authors or writers, Social issues, 1920’s, Death or dying, London, World War I, Human behavior, Kidnapping, Cults, Publicity
- Locales: New York, London, England, Persia, Provence, France
The Novel
Snooty Baronet is a broad social satire which focuses on Sir Michael Kell-Impie, the “Snooty Baronet” of the title, a minor writer of some celebrity, with a mechanical leg and an obscure Scottish title. The novel begins with the writer introducing himself to the reader by confessing that authors are unaccustomed to opening books in the first person, singular, but that the presence of his mechanical leg necessitates such an approach since it is impossible to extricate himself from the cab in which he is riding with any other voice. The opening sentences...
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