book cover of The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
Added by 5 members
 

The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold

(1957)
A collection of stories by

 
 
Gilbert Pinfold is a reclusive Catholic novelist suffering from acute inertia. In an attempt to keep insomnia at bay he has been imbibing an unappetizing cocktail of bromide, chloral and creme de menthe. He books a passage on the SS Caliban, and as it cruises towards Rangoon, he slips into madness.


Genre: Literary Fiction

Visitors also looked at these books


Used availability for Evelyn Waugh's The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold


About Fantastic Fiction       Information for Authors