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A Curious Invitation: The Forty Greatest Parties in Literature

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Description for A Curious Invitation: The Forty Greatest Parties in Literature Paperback. A witty and informative guide to literature's best parties by London's most brilliant party planner. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 198 x 21. Weight in Grams: 236.

Since ancient times human beings have gathered together for social purposes. And since not very long after that writers have written about these occasions.

The party is a useful literary device, not only for social comment and satire, but as an occasion where characters can meet, fall in love, fall out or even get murdered.

A Curious Invitation features forty of the greatest fictional festivities. 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 author’s ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781447228967
SKU
V9781447228967
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Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-50

About Suzette Field
Suzette Field was born in 1978 in Los Angeles. In 1996 she moved to London where she set up a cinema in a converted warehouse and renovated a five-storey Georgian building in Shoreditch. Since 2000 she has produced parties under the auspices of The Modern Times Club, The Last Tuesday Society and latterly A Curious Invitation. Her legendary masked balls ... Read more

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