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"It takes a book like Suzette Field's A Curious Invitation to remind us of the absolute centrality of social entertainment to the way in which a literary classic works its spell."
--The Daily Telegraph
"Need a bit of entertaining inspiration? Take a page from a new book on the greatest gatherings that never were."
--The Wall Street Journal
"Suzette Field is a genuinely talented story teller. Her book possess a playful lightness of touch, but is pregnant with fact and meaning. It is both amusing and informative. Never has education been such a pleasure, never reading a learned exposition so delightful."
--Dan Cruickshank Historian, BBC television presenter and author
"This invaluable guide is written with a professional's eye and is full of wit and apercus."
--The Chap magazine
"A Curious Invitation (Picador) is her review of what she considers to be the 40 greatest parties in literature, a subject that I suspect could become a dinner party topic in its own right."
--Mrs Moneypenny, Financial Times
"What a brilliant idea."
--The Lady
"A Curious Invitation is a book for people of discerning taste who seek some wilful delusion and joyful delirium of their own." --Litro Magazine
"A Curious Invitation is a book for people of discerning taste who seek some wilful delusion and joyful delirium of their own." --Litro Magazine
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--The Daily Telegraph
"Need a bit of entertaining inspiration? Take a page from a new book on the greatest gatherings that never were."
--The Wall Street Journal
"Suzette Field is a genuinely talented story teller. Her book possess a playful lightness of touch, but is pregnant with fact and meaning. It is both amusing and informative. Never has education been such a pleasure, never reading a learned exposition so delightful."
--Dan Cruickshank Historian, BBC television presenter and author
"This invaluable guide is written with a professional's eye and is full of wit and apercus."
--The Chap magazine
"A Curious Invitation (Picador) is her review of what she considers to be the 40 greatest parties in literature, a subject that I suspect could become a dinner party topic in its own right."
--Mrs Moneypenny, Financial Times
"What a brilliant idea."
--The Lady
"A Curious Invitation is a book for people of discerning taste who seek some wilful delusion and joyful delirium of their own." --Litro Magazine
"A Curious Invitation is a book for people of discerning taste who seek some wilful delusion and joyful delirium of their own." --Litro Magazine
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 experience of the society they lived in, such as Lady Metroland's party in Evelyn Waugh's Vile Bodies; while yet 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'. Suzette Field offers you the chance to gatecrash these parties, spanning most of the history of human civilization, seen through the eyes of the world's greatest writers.
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