{"product_id":"party-stories-isbn-9798217007608","title":"Party Stories","description":"\u003cb\u003eEveryone loves a party: this beautiful hardcover gathers a glittering array of famous celebrations by great writers past and present--from Austen, Tolstoy, Maupassant, and Nabokov 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 Darcy snubbing Lizzy in \u003ci\u003ePride and Prejudice \u003c\/i\u003eto J. Edgar Hoover and Truman Capote rubbing shoulders in Don DeLillo’s “The Black-and-White Ball.” Revelry can be revealing of character, as in 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 also reveal 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.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere 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,” and Saki’s “The Boar-Pig.” Glamour with a gothic twist makes an entrance in the fateful costume ball in 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. All sorts of literary greats mingle in this festive gathering, a perfectly entertaining 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.Contents\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDEBUTS AND YOUNG HEARTS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLeo Tolstoy, “Natasha’s First Ball” (from \u003ci\u003eWar and Peace\u003c\/i\u003e) \u003cbr\u003eKate Chopin, “Her First Party”\u003cbr\u003eKatherine Mansfield, “The Garden Party”\u003cbr\u003eEdna O’ Brien, “Come into the Drawing Room, Doris”\u003cbr\u003eAlan Hollinghurst, “Toby Fedden’s 21st\" (from \u003ci\u003eThe Line of Beauty\u003c\/i\u003e) \u003cbr\u003eTessa Hadley, “Vincent’s Party”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLAST HURRAHS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEdgar Allan Poe, “The Masque of the Red Death”\u003cbr\u003eGuy de Maupassant, “The Necklace”\u003cbr\u003eEvelyn Waugh, “Bella Fleace Gave a Party”\u003cbr\u003eDelmore Schwartz, “New Year’s Eve”\u003cbr\u003eVladimir Nabokov, “Pnin Gives a Party”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePARTYING TO EXCESS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eF. Scott Fitzgerald, “Jay Gatsby’s Party in West Egg” (from \u003ci\u003eThe Great Gatsby\u003c\/i\u003e) \u003cbr\u003eErnest Hemingway, “The Festival of San Fermin” (from \u003ci\u003eThe Sun Also Rises\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003cbr\u003eTom Wolfe, “The Masque of the Red Death” (from \u003ci\u003eThe Bonfire of the Vanities\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003cbr\u003eDon DeLillo, “The Black and White Ball”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDISHONOURED GUESTS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJane Austen, “The Meryton Ball” (from \u003ci\u003ePride and Prejudice\u003c\/i\u003e) \u003cbr\u003eSaki, “The Boar-Pig”\u003cbr\u003eDaphne du Maurier, “The Manderley Fancy Dress Ball” (from \u003ci\u003eRebecca\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003cbr\u003eDorothy Parker, “Arrangement in Black and White”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eOLD FRIENDS AND REMEMBRANCES\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJames Joyce, “The Dead”\u003cbr\u003eVirginia Woolf, “Clarissa Dalloway’s Party” (from \u003ci\u003eMrs Dalloway\u003c\/i\u003e) \u003cbr\u003eJhumpa Lahiri, “P’s Parties”ELLA CARR is the editor of the Everyman's Library Pocket Classic anthologies \u003ci\u003eStories of Florence \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eStories of Southern Italy. \u003c\/i\u003eShe is the author of the guide \u003ci\u003eFlorence Walks\u003c\/i\u003e and lives in the UK.","brand":"Everyman's Library","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48233465348325,"sku":"NP9798217007608","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/party-stories-isbn-9798217007608","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}