Parties
Subtitle: A Literary Companion
Publisher: Overlook Hardcover
Published: January 1, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9780879517526
Subjects: Short Stories (Anthologies); Special Subjects In Literature; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Fiction; Fiction / Anthologies (multiple authors); Anthologies (multiple authors); Entertaining; Literary collections; Parties
Description: This fabulously entertaining collection gathers for the first time the wittiest, the most illuminating, the most entertaining - simply the best - writing about this most social of rituals, from over 200 writers, including Truman Capote, Martin Amis, Daphne DuMaurier, Horace, Noel Coward, Edith Wharton, Tom Wolfe, Shakespeare, Colette, Vladimir Nabokov, Muriel Spark, James Thurber, Jane Austen, F. Scott Fitzgerald, the Bible, Dorothy Parker, Dominick Dunne and many more.