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. . 2014. Main market ed. Paperback. . . . .

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T�tulo: A Curious Invitation: The Forty Greatest Parties in Literature
Editor: Pan Macmillan
Fecha de publicaci�n: 2014
Idioma: Ingl�s
ISBN 10: 1447228960
ISBN 13: 9781447228967
Encuadernaci�n: Encuadernaci�n de tapa blanda
Estado: New

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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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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 now regularly attract up to 3,000 revellers. She also curates literary salons with the National Trust and organizes taxidermy workshops. She lives in Muswell Hill, North London, and has two children.

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