{"product_id":"party-stories-9781841596389","title":"Party Stories","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMomentous parties have long provided dramatic scenes in fiction, from Natasha's first ball in \u003cem\u003eWar and Peace\u003c\/em\u003e to Lizzie meeting Darcy in \u003cem\u003ePride and Prejudice\u003c\/em\u003e to J. Edgar Hoover consorting with Truman Capote in Don DeLillo's \u003cem\u003eThe Black and White Ball\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRevelry can be revealing of character, as in Jay Gatsby's extravagant bash in F. Scott Fitzgerald's \u003cem\u003eThe Great Gatsby\u003c\/em\u003e and the decadent partying of the jaded expats in Ernest Hemingway's \u003cem\u003eThe Sun Also Rises\u003c\/em\u003e. More decorous affairs can conceal profound depths, as in Katherine Mansfield's \u003cem\u003eThe Garden Party\u003c\/em\u003e and the parties at the centre of two modernist masterpieces, Virginia Woolf's \u003cem\u003eMrs. Dalloway\u003c\/em\u003e and James Joyce's \u003cem\u003eThe Dead\u003c\/em\u003e. Glamour with a gothic twist makes an appearance here in the fancy dress ball at Manderley from Daphne Du Maurier's \u003cem\u003eRebecca\u003c\/em\u003e and in Edgar Allan Poe's \u003cem\u003eThe Masque of the Red Death\u003c\/em\u003e, at which Death himself is a guest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBut there is room on this dance floor for humour as well, in Evelyn Waugh's \u003cem\u003eBella Fleace Gave a Party\u003c\/em\u003e, Dorothy Parker's \u003cem\u003eArrangement in Black \u0026amp; White\u003c\/em\u003e, Saki's \u003cem\u003eA Boar Pig\u003c\/em\u003e and Vladimir Nabokov's \u003cem\u003ePnin Gives a Party\u003c\/em\u003e. All kinds of literary greats consort in this festive gathering, a perfect gift for readers and partygoers alike.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House Distribution","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46857351102700,"sku":"9781841596389","price":26.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781841596389.jpg?v=1759350985","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/products\/party-stories-9781841596389","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}