{"product_id":"party-stories-hardcover","title":"Party Stories - Hardcover","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\u003eElla Carr\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\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 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eELLA 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 469\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.4 x 7.3 x 4.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 04, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44379417935974,"sku":"9798217007608","price":33.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/UPiC1NaS279798217007608.webp?v=1768921167","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/party-stories-hardcover","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}