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A witty study of the history of entertaining traces the art of hospitality from the modern day back in time to the time of the ancient Greeks, looking at such famous (or infamous) hosts as Gertrude Stein, Adolf Hitler, King Louis XIV, and the Roman emperors along the way. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.
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Jesse Browner was born and lives in New York City. He is the author of two novels, Conglomeros and Turnaway, and has translated works by Cocteau, Rilke, Eluard, and others.
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- PublisherBloomsbury Pub Plc USA
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 1582344434
- ISBN 13 9781582344430
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- Number of pages198
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Book Description Softcover. Condition: Good. Partisan, witty, and laced with astonishing historical detail, The Duchess Who Wouldn't Sit Down is dedicated to a new understanding of the art of hospitality. Jesse Browner leads the way back through Western civilization, from a present-day poker game where Browner's devastatingly delicious sandwiches leave the best players penniless, to the ancient Greeks, whose gods punished or exalted the mortals according to their excellence as hosts. On the way, we visit Hitler at his summer home, Gertrude Stein in Paris and Lady Ottoline Morrell in England, Audubon in nineteeth-century America, Louis XIV at Versailles, and the Roman emperors, for whom classic dinner-table entertainment was a good poisoning. As delightful and edifying as an evening in favored company, The Duchess Who Wouldn't Sit Down is a must-read for anyone who's ever accepted an invitation-or wonders why they keep sending them out. Seller Inventory # SONG1582344434
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