Arcadian Adventures With the Idle Rich Stephen Leacock Books
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Arcadian Adventures With the Idle Rich Stephen Leacock Books
It's really very simple. Take the feel of P.G. Wodehouse. Add an ironic approach to business and finance that rivals A.P. Herbert's treament of the practice of law. Then add a bemused and generous, but razor sharp and always alert, sensibility that fondly but unflinchingly mocks the society and the business and investment practices of wealthy urbanites in 1910-ish America. What you get is this book. This is a remarkable find among the public domain Kindle freebies and worth every bit of effort it took you to find it.This is as fresh as yesterday's newspaper, and about a million times more perceptive. A wonderful find and an entertaining and instructive read.
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Arcadian Adventures With the Idle Rich Stephen Leacock Books Reviews
Great insight into the rich, powerful, educated and vain that will make you laugh at them and at the same time understand them better and see your own tendencies in that direction on occasion. This should be a must read for anyone that is employed by a country club or works in direct service to the elite. It might help the world if all our educators, CEOs and politicians were forced to read it as well. As Vanity, Superiority and Greed never seem to leave us this book will be a treasure to keep handy and pass down from one generation to the next. If you can't beat them, might as well laugh at them.
slipped off the radar
Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich is a short, fast-paced and very entertaining novel. I read it with great delight many years ago and it remains one of my favorite satiric works. During the financial meltdown of 2008, I read it again (for the fourth time) and marveled at how little has changed in the world of finance -- it's still rife with pretension, avarice, speculation, delusion and folly. Leacock knows whereof he speaks he was an internationally respected professor of economics, and wrote his satiric fiction and essays as a profitable sideline. In his day, he was the most popular published humorist in the English-speaking world. Groucho Marx and Jack Benny were among his avid fans. Leacock's style is never pedantic or laboured -- his pen is more rapier than battle axe, and he's deliciously funny in a sly, understated way. Arcadian Adventures takes aim at entrepreneurial neophytes, predatory financiers and credulous denizens of private clubs. In other fiction and essays, Leacock satirizes everything from small town life to public institutions. I recommend all his works, and I recommend that you start with this one.
I was astonished to find that Arcadian Adventures of the Idle Rich seems to be only available new as various reprints of the same unedited public-domain scans. The quality is readable, and all the pages are present. However, they are replete with dark marks at the edges and notes scrawled by previous readers. It's a pity no publisher has reissued this book in a newly typeset format with a custom-designed cover, not a generic one the reprint publisher uses for numerous other books. Or at least a clean copy could have been scanned.
However, the *content* is superb. Stephen Leacock satirizes the social events, marriages, educations, morals, politics, and especially the business practices of the 1910s New England or New York nouveau riche. (It's not clear exactly where the action is located.) This world is reminiscent of that of P.G. Wodehouse. As a writer, Leacock is more understated and more intellectual than Wodehouse. (Leacock was a university professor of political economy.) In some ways Leacock is kinder--a number of appealing, morally pure, though unintelligent innocents are caught in the toils of this society and must somehow escape it or make peace with it. Then, as is common in books of this era, every young unmarried woman is chivalrously depicted as innocent and beautiful.
Plotwise, Arcadian Adventures is a series of interconnected short stories with overlapping characters. A broke British duke tries to borrow money from Americans who instead want him to invest in their businesses. A hick becomes a multimillionaire when gold is discovered on his family farm. He plays the stock market in an attempt to rid himself of the burden of wealth--something the president of the local university is only too happy to help him do. Two ex-prisoners con a group of empty-headed, idle society matrons. (Leacock fails to point out that this is the kind of woman all those innocent, beautiful girls will presumably become.) A sweet but stupid young-man-about-town falls in love with every unmarried woman he meets. The rector of a Presbyterian church celebrated for hellfire sermons competes with an Anglican vicar known for his attendance at tango teas. A philosophy professor has a stroke because a student asks an intelligent question. In the last chapter, all the tycoons band together to "clean up" city politics.
Leacock's irony is unflagging, and his prose is delightful. Don't deprive yourself of this treat just because most editions of this book are badly produced.
It's really very simple. Take the feel of P.G. Wodehouse. Add an ironic approach to business and finance that rivals A.P. Herbert's treament of the practice of law. Then add a bemused and generous, but razor sharp and always alert, sensibility that fondly but unflinchingly mocks the society and the business and investment practices of wealthy urbanites in 1910-ish America. What you get is this book. This is a remarkable find among the public domain freebies and worth every bit of effort it took you to find it.
This is as fresh as yesterday's newspaper, and about a million times more perceptive. A wonderful find and an entertaining and instructive read.
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