Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich

By Leacock, Stephen

Book Id: WPLBN0002953778
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File Size: 195.32 MB
Reproduction Date: 2009

Title:	Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich
Author:	Leacock, Stephen
Volume:
Language:	English
Subject:	Fiction, Comedy, Humor
Collections:	Audio Books Collection, Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich
Historic Publication Date:	1914
Publisher:	LibriVox Audio Books


Citation APA MLA Chicago Leacock, B. S. (1914). Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich. Retrieved from http://www.gutenberg.cc/

Description
Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich is a work of humorous fiction by Stephen Leacock first published in 1914. It is the follow-up to his 1912 classic Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town. Like that work, it is a sequence of interlocking stories set in one town, but instead of focusing on a small Canadian town in the countryside, it is set in a major American metropolis and its characters are the upper crust of society. Although currently not as well-known as the earlier book, Arcadian Adventures was extremely popular in North America at the time of its publication and for a while was considered the greater success. It was also translated and published by the Bolshevik government soon after the 1917 revolution and it became a bestseller in the Soviet Union.

Summary
Electronic recorded live performance of a reading

Excerpt
Comedy, Humor