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The Forty Greatest Parties in Fiction
Harper Perennial
October 2013
On Sale: October 15, 2013
320 pages
ISBN: 0062271830
EAN: 9780062271839
Kindle: B00BATNN9U
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Non-Fiction
Forty of the greatest fictional festivities as seen through
the eyes of the world's greatest writers. People love
to party. And writers love to attend and document these
occasions. The party is a useful literary device, not only
for social commentary and satire but also as an occasion
where characters can meet, fall in and out of love, or even
get murdered. A Curious Invitation is a
humorous and informative guide to literature's most
memorable parties. Some of these parties are depictions of
real events, like the Duchess of Richmond's ball on the eve
of battle with Napoleon in Thackeray's Vanity Fair;
others draw on the authors' experience of the society they
lived in, such as Lady Metroland's party in Evelyn Waugh's
Vile Bodies; while others come straight from the
writer's bizarre imagination, like Douglas Adams' flying
party above an unknown planet from The Hitchhiker's
Guide to the Galaxy. Witty, entertaining, and
full of fabulous detail, A Curious Invitation
offers readers the chance to crash some of the great parties
in literary history
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