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Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich
Plutoria Avenue and Its Mausoleum Club
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Plutoria Avenue: a university that sells its soul for an endowment, two churches that merge for financial reasons, a mystic who fleeces the ladies' lunch club, and a clean-government campaign run by the men it is meant to expose. Leacock ran the economics department at McGill by day and claimed the humour paid better; this 1914 companion to Sunshine Sketches turns the same eye on the rich, and the knife goes in much deeper. Fifty-seven plates by painters from Hogarth to Bellows, all clubs and supper tables and family gatherings, give Leacock's idle rich a visual ancestry stretching back two centuries.
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- Chapter One: A Little Dinner with Mr. Lucullus Fyshe
- Chapter Two: The Wizard of Finance
- Chapter Three: The Arrested Philanthropy of Mr. Tomlinson
- Chapter Four: The Yahi-Bahi Oriental Society of Mrs. Rasselyer-Brown
- Chapter Five: The Love Story of Mr. Peter Spillikins
- Chapter Six: The Rival Churches of St. Asaph and St. Osoph
- Chapter Seven: The Ministrations of the Rev. Uttermust Dumfarthing
- Chapter Eight: The Great Fight for Clean Government
- About the Author
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