Found 360 results for "Socialites, fiction"
The Hollow
by Agatha Christie
AT 6:13 A.M. on a Friday morning Lucy Angkatell's big blue eyes opened upon another day, and as always, she was at once ...
The Age of Innocence
by Edith Wharton
On a January evening of the early seventies, Christine Nilsson was singing in Faust at the Academy of Music in New York.
The Beautiful and Damned
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
IN 1913, when Anthony Patch was twenty-five, two years were already gone since irony, the Holy Ghost of this later day, ...
Evelina
by Fanny Burney, Frances Burney
CAN any thing, my good Sir, be more painful to a friendly mind, than a necessity of communicating disagreeable intellige...
The Eustace diamonds
by Anthony Trollope
It was admitted by all her friends, and also by her enemies-who were in truth the more numerous and active body of the t...
The Rise of Silas Lapham
by William Dean Howells
WHEN Bartley Hubbard went to interview Silas Lapham for the "Solid Men of Boston" series, which he undertook to finish u...
Democracy
by Henry Adams
For reasons which many persons thought ridiculous, Mrs. Lightfoot Lee decided to pass the winter in Washington.
The Glimpses of the Moon
by Edith Wharton
IT rose for them-their honey-moon-over the waters of a lake so famed as the scene of romantic raptures that they were ra...
The Moneychangers
by Upton Sinclair
"I am," said Reggie Mann, "quite beside myself to meet this Lucy Dupree."