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Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich by Stephen Leacock is a work of humorous fiction first published in 1914 and is the follow-up to the 1912 best-seller Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town.Any profits generated from the sale of this book will go towards the Freeriver Community... Read Full Overview

Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich has both a timeless and timely relevance in the way Leacock sees through pretension and hypocrisy in the areas of education, politics, classism, na ve religion and spirituality-he also points the way to a better way of thinking and being... Read Full Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely... Read Full Overview

Arcadian Adventures With The Idle Rich is a collection of humorous essays written by Stephen Leacock, a Canadian writer and economist, and first published in 1914. The book is a satirical commentary on the lifestyles of the wealthy elite in early 20th century North America. Leacock... Read Full Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely... Read Full Overview

So that was why Mr. Fyshe had asked Mr. Furlong to lunch with him, and to dine with him later on in the same day at the Mausoleum Club to meet the Duke of Dulham. And Mr. Furlong, realizing that a clergyman must be all things to all men and not avoid a man merely because he is... Read Full Overview

The Mausoleum Club stands on the quietest corner of the best residential street in the City. It is a Grecian building of white stone. About it are great elm trees with birds-the most expensive kind of birds-singing in the branches. The street in the softer hours of the morning... Read Full Overview

Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich is a collection of humorous interwoven vignettes by Stephen Leacock, published in 1914. It exists as a companion work to his Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town (1912), due to the similarity of composition, and their subject matter. Arcadian... Read Full Overview

Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich is a collection of humorous interwoven vignettes by Stephen Leacock, published in 1914. It exists as a companion work to his Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town (1912), due to the similarity of composition, and their subject matter. Arcadian... Read Full Overview

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Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich is a work of humorous fiction by Stephen Leacock first published in 1914. It is the follow-up to his 1912 classic Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town. Like that work, it is a sequence of interlocking stories set in one town, but instead of... Read Full Overview

Arcadian Adventures With The Idle Rich is a satirical novel written by Stephen Leacock, first published in 1914. The book is a humorous commentary on the lifestyle and attitudes of the wealthy elite in early 20th century North America. The story follows the adventures of a young... Read Full Overview

Arcadian Adventures With The Idle Rich is a satirical novel written by Stephen Leacock. The book is a humorous account of the lives of the wealthy and idle upper class society in the early 20th century. The story revolves around the narrator's experiences as he accompanies a... Read Full Overview