TY - BOOK AU - Leacock,Stephen TI - Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich AV - PS PY - 2003/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Satire KW - Humorous stories KW - Rich people -- Fiction KW - Capitalists and financiers -- Fiction N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcadian_Adventures_with_the_Idle_Rich; Release date is 2003-05-01; A little dinner with Mr. Lucullus Fyshe -- The wizard of finance -- The arrested philanthropy of Mr. Tomlinson -- The Yahi-Bahi Oriental Society of Mrs. Rasselyer-Brown -- The love story of Mr. Peter Spillikins -- The rival churches of St. Asaph and St. Osoph -- The ministrations of the Rev. Uttermust Dumfarthing -- The great fight for clean government; Produced by Gardner Buchanan. HTML version by Al Haines; Original publication data not identified N2 - "Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich" by Stephen Leacock is a collection of humorous interwoven vignettes published in 1914. Set on Plutoria Avenue in an unnamed American city, the book follows wealthy members of the Mausoleum Club, satirizing their obsessive individualism and materialism. This companion work to "Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town" ranks among Leacock's most scathing and funniest works, penetrating upper-class sham with cheerful satire. The book became extremely popular in North America and even a bestseller in the Soviet Union. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4020 ER -