Stories Toto Told Me
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
A delightfully eccentric work of late Victorian fiction, Stories Toto Told Me presents a series of whimsical, irreverent tales narrated by a charming Italian peasant boy named Toto to an English narrator living in Rome. Written with the sardonic wit and ornate prose style that defined its author's singular literary voice, the collection reimagines Catholic hagiography and folklore with a mischievous, almost blasphemous playfulness that both enchants and unsettles. Each story chronicles the adventures of saints and angels rendered in vivid, earthy detail, stripping away solemnity to reveal a world where the sacred and the absurd coexist with surprising warmth. Originally published in the 1890s, the work stands as an early and characteristic example of the author's idiosyncratic genius — a voice utterly unlike any other in English literature, blending aesthetic decadence with a deep, if unconventional, religious sensibility.
Author: Frederick Baron Corvo
Format: Hardback
Published: 1969, Collins
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
A delightfully eccentric work of late Victorian fiction, Stories Toto Told Me presents a series of whimsical, irreverent tales narrated by a charming Italian peasant boy named Toto to an English narrator living in Rome. Written with the sardonic wit and ornate prose style that defined its author's singular literary voice, the collection reimagines Catholic hagiography and folklore with a mischievous, almost blasphemous playfulness that both enchants and unsettles. Each story chronicles the adventures of saints and angels rendered in vivid, earthy detail, stripping away solemnity to reveal a world where the sacred and the absurd coexist with surprising warmth. Originally published in the 1890s, the work stands as an early and characteristic example of the author's idiosyncratic genius — a voice utterly unlike any other in English literature, blending aesthetic decadence with a deep, if unconventional, religious sensibility.