{"product_id":"9781841596389","title":"Party Stories","description":"Author: Carr, Ella\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781841596389\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 11 Nov 2025\u003cbr\u003ePages: 400\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Hardback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEveryone loves a party! This beautiful hardcover gathers a glittering array of famous celebrations throughout classic literature-from Austen, Tolstoy, and Maupassant to Alan Hollinghurst, Edna O'Brien, Don DeLillo, and Jhumpa Lahiri.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMomentous parties have long provided dramatic scenes in fiction, from Natasha's first ball in \u003ci\u003eWar and Peace\u003c\/i\u003e to Lizzie meeting Darcy in \u003ci\u003ePride and Prejudice\u003c\/i\u003e to J. Edgar Hoover consorting with Truman Capote in Don DeLillo's 'The Black and White Ball'.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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\u003e. More decorous affairs can conceal profound depths, as in Katherine Mansfield's 'The Garden Party' and the parties at the centre of two modernist masterpieces, Virginia Woolf's \u003ci\u003eMrs. Dalloway\u003c\/i\u003e and 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 humour as well, in Evelyn Waugh's 'Bella Fleace Gave a Party', Dorothy Parker's 'Arrangement in Black \u0026amp; White', Saki's 'A Boar Pig' and Vladimir Nabokov's 'Pnin Gives a Party'. All kinds of literary greats consort in this festive gathering, a perfect gift for readers and partygoers alike.","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46729870311582,"sku":"UBD-9781841596389","price":34.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781841596389.jpg?v=1776651576","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781841596389","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}