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With a wit as sharp as a vodka stinger and a heart as free as her spirit, Auntie Mame burst onto the literary scene in 1955--and today remains one of the most unforgettable characters in contemporary fiction.

Wildly successful when it was first published in 1955,... Read Full Overview

"Outrageous, hilarious, ribald, sophisticated, slapsatiric." The Denver Post With a wit as sharp as a vodka stinger and a heart as free as her spirit, Auntie Mame burst onto the literary scene in 1955 -- and today remains one of the most unforgettable characters in contemporary... Read Full Overview

"Outrageous, hilarious, ribald, sophisticated, slapsatiric." The Denver Post With a wit as sharp as a vodka stinger and a heart as free as her spirit, Auntie Mame burst onto the literary scene in 1955 -- and today remains one of the most unforgettable characters in contemporary... Read Full Overview

A ten-year-old boy is orphaned in the unedifying America of the 1920s and is placed under the control of an eccentric lady, obsessed with being ? la page, vital, capricious, seductive and adorable. Together with her, he will spend the next thirty years in an incessant spiral... Read Full Overview

With an Introduction by Paul Rudnick and a swank new cover, "Auntie Mame" is back in print, the classic novel that introduced the world to America's most madcap, fun-loving, and irresistible aunt. Afterword by Michael Tanner.

Wildly successful when it was first published in 1955, Patrick Dennis' Auntie Mame sold over two million copies and stayed put on the New York Times bestseller list for 112 weeks. It was made into a play, a Broadway as well as a Hollywood musical, and a fabulous movie starring... Read Full Overview