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High Society: Advice As To Social Campaigning, And Hints On The Management Of Dowagers, Dinners, Debutantes, Dances, And The Thousan
Hardcover
ISBN13: 9781019381519
Publisher: Legare Street Pr
Published: Jul 18 2023
Pages: 76
Weight: 0.63
Height: 0.25 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Dorothy Parker, Frank Crowninshield, and George Shepard Chappell's 'High Society' is a satirical guidebook to the absurdities of American upper-class life in the 1920s. Full of witty observations and hilarious anecdotes, the book skewers the pretensions and excesses of the rich and powerful. This is a book that will make you laugh out loud and cringe at the same time.
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