{"product_id":"party-stories-1","title":"Party Stories By Carr, Ella","description":"\u003cb\u003eEveryone loves a party: this beautiful hardcover gathers a glittering array of famous celebrations from throughout classic literature--from Austen, Tolstoy, and Maupassant to Alan Hollinghurst, Edna O''Brien, Don DeLillo, and Jhumpa Lahiri\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMomentous parties have long provided dramatic scenes in fiction, from Natasha’s first ball in \u003ci\u003eWar and Peace \u003c\/i\u003eto Lizzie meeting Darcy in \u003ci\u003ePride and Prejudice \u003c\/i\u003eto J. Edgar Hoover consorting with Truman Capote in Don DeLillo’s “The Black and White Ball.”\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eRevelry can be revealing of character, as in Jay Gatsby’s extravagant bash in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s \u003ci\u003eThe Great Gatsby\u003c\/i\u003e and the decadent partying of the jaded expats in Ernest Hemingway’s \u003ci\u003eThe Sun Also Rises. \u003c\/i\u003eMore decorous affairs can conceal profound depths, as in Katherine Mansfield’s “The Garden Party” and the parties at the center of those two modernist masterpieces, Virginia Woolf’s \u003ci\u003eMrs. Dalloway \u003c\/i\u003eand James Joyce’s “The Dead.” Glamour with a gothic twist makes an appearance here in the fancy dress ball at Manderley from Daphne Du Maurier’s \u003ci\u003eRebecca\u003c\/i\u003e and in Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Masque of the Red Death,” at which Death himself is a guest.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut there is room on this dance floor for humor as well, in Evelyn Waugh’s “Bella Fleace Gave a Party,” Dorothy Parker’s “Arrangement in Black \u0026amp; White,” Saki''s \"A Boar Pig,\" Vladimir Nabokov’s “Pnin Gives a Party,” and more. All sorts of literary greats consort in this festive gathering, a perfect gift for readers and partygoers alike. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEveryman''s Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket.","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57820763488638,"sku":"NW9798217007608","price":15.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9798217007608.jpg?v=1786172817","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/party-stories-1","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}