Arcadian Adventures With the Idle Rich

by Leacock, Stephen
ISBN: 9798709868373
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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 trunk-line railways. You may meet in the flickeredsunlight any number of little princes and princesses farmore real than the poor survivals of Europe. Incalculableinfants wave their fifty-dollar ivory rattles in aninarticulate greeting to one another. A million dollarsof preferred stock laughs merrily in recognition of amajority control going past in a go-cart drawn by animported nurse. And through it all the sunlight fallsthrough the elm trees, and the birds sing and the motorshum, so that the whole world as seen from the boulevardof Plutoria Avenue is the very pleasantest place imaginable.Just below Plutoria Avenue, and parallel with it, thetrees die out and the brick and stone of the City beginsin earnest. Even from the AvenRead More
  • Format: TradePaperback
  • Author: Leacock, Stephen
  • ISBN: 9798709868373
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 11.02 x 0.38
  • Number Of Pages: 178
  • Publication Year: 2021
Language: English