2 books like All the Flowers in Paris
Democracy
Mrs. Lee goes to Washington D.C. to lean about politics by watching the waltzing bears. Then the bears invite her to the dance.
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The Custom of the Country
Edith Wharton's satiric anatomy of American society in the first decade of the twentieth century appeared in 1913; it both appalled and fascinated its first reviewers, and established her as a major novelist. It follows the career of Undine Spragg, recently arrived in New York from the Midwest and determined to conquer high society. Glamorous, selfish, mercenary, and manipulative, her principal…
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