How Firm a Foundation

Patrick Dennis

Littlehampton Book Services Lt

A satirical view of Hollywood life is presented through the story of an uninhibited woman's rise to fame as a movie actress

Little Me

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

E.P. Dutton, Inc.

Pocket Book

Auntie Mame (an irreverent escapade)

Literature & Fiction

Humor & Satire

Broadway Books

With a wit as sharp as a vodka stinger and a heart as free as her spirit, Auntie Mame burst onto the literary scene in 1955--and today remains one of the most unforgettable characters in contemporary fiction. Wildly successful when it was first published in 1955, Patrick Dennis’ Auntie Mame sold over two million copies and stayed put on the New York Times bestseller list for 112 weeks. It was made into a play, a Broadway and a Hollywood musical, and a fabulous movie starring Rosalind Russell. Since then, Mame has taken her rightful place in the pantheon of Great and Important People as the world’s most beloved, madcap, devastatingly sophisticated, and glamorous aunt. She is impossible to resist, and this hilarious story of an orphaned ten-year-old boy sent to live with his aunt is as delicious a read in the twenty-first century as it was in the 1950s. Follow the rollicking adventures of this unflappable flapper as seen through the wide eyes of her young, impressionable nephew and discover anew or for the first time why Mame has made the world a more wonderful place. "Outrageous, hilarious, ribald, sophisticated, slapsatiric." The Denver Post

Auntie Mame: An Irreverent Escapade

Dramas & Plays

Crown

Auntie Mame: An Irreverent Escapade in Biography

Michael Tanner

Paul Rudnick

Around the World with Auntie Mame

In 1955, Auntie Mame spent 112 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, but that was only her first act. Three years later, thousands of fans celebrated her reappearance in a novel of international hijinks. Narrated once again by Mame s fictional deadpan nephew, Around the World with Auntie Mame takes readers on a first-rate if not always first-class voyage to intriguing locales around the world including Paris, London, and Lebanon. Setting sail aboard the Normandie, Mame soon finds herself pursued by Interpol and rescued from seminudity by a pack of Irish wolfhounds. Next, Mame s antics lead her to a gunrunning ship on the eve of World War II, causing luxury accommodations to be forfeited for the sake of action. But not to worry she doesn t rough it for long. If you thought her Manhattan parties were superb, you ll want to put yourself on the guest list for her splashy Venice bash featured in this equally tipsy and titillating romp. Also included is an account of Mame s stopover at the Mother Bloor Communal Farm in rural Russia, an irreverently comic chapter suppressed when the book was first published at the height of the Red Scare. New acquaintances and lifelong fans of Auntie Mame will all relish this second round of even more outrageous escapades with the world s most glamorous globetrotter.

Around the World With Auntie Mame

Short Stories & Anthologies

Buccaneer Books

Genius

Independent Publishers Group (Chicago Review Press)

Kerry, a wealthy and socially prominent New York City ten-year-old, describes how his parents' marriage falls apart on Christmas morning, and recounts their divorce, his mother's romance with her ambitious lawyer and his father's with a fashionably skinny magazine editor.

The Joyous Season

Teen & Young Adult

Green Mansion Press

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