Gilded Play: Mary J. Jacques' Pranks and Pastimes

by Mary J. Jacques

During America's late nineteenth-century, parlor games were a dominant leisure activity of the upper classes. The 'Gilded Age, ' as Mark Twain termed it, was characterized by the separation between leisurely wealth and the harsh existence of the underclasses, cleft even wider with the increase of industrial production. This "Book of Games, Parlor Performances and Puzzles" is a reprint of an original 1888 edition that promised the wealthy hours upon...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1935907417
• ISBN13: 9781935907411
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: Westphalia Press
• Length: 178 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 8.0"