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Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich by Stephen Leacock is a work of humorous fiction first published in 1914 and is the follow-up to the 1912 best-seller Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town.Any profits generated from the sale of this book will go towards the Freeriver Community... Read Full Overview

Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich has both a timeless and timely relevance in the way Leacock sees through pretension and hypocrisy in the areas of education, politics, classism, na ve religion and spirituality-he also points the way to a better way of thinking and being... Read Full Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original... Read Full Overview

Book Excerpt: trols from its cradle an entire New Jerseycorporation. The United States attorney-general is suingher as she sits, in a vain attempt to make her dissolveherself into constituent companies. Near by is a childof four, in a khaki suit, who represents the merger oftwo... Read Full Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely... Read Full Overview

Arcadian Adventures With The Idle Rich is a collection of humorous essays written by Stephen Leacock, a Canadian writer and economist, and first published in 1914. The book is a satirical commentary on the lifestyles of the wealthy elite in early 20th century North America. Leacock... Read Full Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely... Read Full Overview

So that was why Mr. Fyshe had asked Mr. Furlong to lunch with him, and to dine with him later on in the same day at the Mausoleum Club to meet the Duke of Dulham. And Mr. Furlong, realizing that a clergyman must be all things to all men and not avoid a man merely because he is... Read Full Overview