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On Plutoria Avenue, wealthy residents spend their time managing fortunes, organizing charities, and competing over social influence. Across a series of connected sketches, Leacock turns their grand plans and earnest public causes into comic spectacles. The book was published in 1914. Leacock makes the rich characters’ self-importance the joke, with comedy built from their own schemes and pretensions. The humor is clever and mostly clean, making this a lively read for fans of social comedy.
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