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Arcadian Adventures of the Idle Rich by Stephen Leacock
Following the 100th anniversary celebrations of the publication of Stephen Leacock's Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town, The Link’s resident book reviewer Priscila Uppal rereads the companion volume Arcadian Adventures of the Idle Rich, another book of satiric short stories, this time set in an unnamed big American city.
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