• Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich by Stephen Leacock (1869 - 1944)

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Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich by Stephen Leacock (1869 - 1944)

By: ciesse
  • Summary

  • "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 focusing on a small Canadian town in the countryside, it is set in a major American metropolis and its characters are the upper crust of society.

    Although currently not as well-known as the earlier book, "Arcadian Adventures" was extremely popular in North America at the time of its publication and for a while was considered the greater success. It was also translated and published by the Bolshevik government soon after the 1917 revolution and it became a bestseller in the Soviet Union. (Summary by Wikipedia)
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Episodes
  • 14 - The Great Fight for Clean Government pt 1
    24 mins
  • 07 - The Yahi-Bahi Oriental Society of Mrs. Rasselyer-Brown pt 2
    30 mins
  • 02 - A Little Dinner with Mr. Lucullus Fyshe pt 2
    33 mins

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