{"product_id":"a-curious-invitation-paperback","title":"A Curious Invitation - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSuzette Field\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eForty of the greatest fictional festivities as seen through the eyes of the world's greatest writers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePeople love to party. And writers love to attend and document these occasions. The party is a useful literary device, not only for social commentary and satire but also as an occasion where characters can meet, fall in and out of love, or even get murdered.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Curious Invitation\u003c\/em\u003e is a humorous and informative guide to literature's most memorable parties. 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 \u003cem\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/em\u003e; others draw on the authors' experience of the society they lived in, such as Lady Metroland's party in Evelyn Waugh's \u003cem\u003eVile Bodies\u003c\/em\u003e; while others come straight from the writer's bizarre imagination, like Douglas Adams' flying party above an unknown planet from \u003cem\u003eThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWitty, entertaining, and full of fabulous detail, \u003cem\u003eA Curious Invitation\u003c\/em\u003e offers readers the chance to crash some of the great parties in literary history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.76 x 8.01 x 5.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 23, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45168688463974,"sku":"9780062271839","price":25.71,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/UkJzYXhpK1Q2Kzd3SE0xQWFnQUZFQT09.webp?v=1773424230","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/a-curious-invitation-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}