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Brideshead revisited : the sacred and profane memories of Captain Charles Ryder / by Waugh, Evelyn,1903-1966.;
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Upper class families; Male friendship; Catholics;
© 2012., Little, Brown and Company,
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Pineapple Street : a novel / by Jackson, Jennyauthor.;
"A deliciously funny, sharply observed novel of family, wealth, love and tennis, this zeitgeisty debut follows three women in an old Brooklyn Heights clan: one who was born with money, one who married into it, and one, the millennial conscience of the family, who wants to give it all away. Darley, the eldest daughter in the Stockton family, has never worried about money. The product of generational wealth and capitalist success, Darley renounced her inheritance when she married Malcolm, a first generation Korean American with a lucrative job in banking. Sasha, Darley's new sister-in-law, has come from more humble origins, and her hesitancy about signing a pre-nup has everyone worried about her intentions. Georgiana, newly graduated from Brown and proud to think of herself as a "do-gooder," has enough money from her trust that she's able to work for a pittance at a not-for-profit, where she has started a secret love affair with a senior colleague. But when a scandal derails Malcolm's career, leaving Darley financially in the lurch, when Sasha glimpses the less-than-attractive attributes beneath the Stockton brood's carefully-guarded façade, and when Georgiana discovers her boyfriend is married and still in love with his wife, they must all come to terms with what money can't buy-the bonds of love that can make and unmake a family. Rife with the indulgent pleasures of affluent WASPS in New York and full of recognizable if fallible characters (and a couple of appalling ones!), it's about the peculiar unknowability of someone else's family, about the haves and have-nots and the nuances in between, and the insanity of first love-Pineapple Street is a scintillating, wryly comic novel of race, class, wealth and privilege in an age that disdains all of it"--
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Novels.; Rich people; Social classes; Upper class families; Marriage;
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Death of a New American / by Fredericks, Mariah.;
Death of a New American by Mariah Fredericks is the atmospheric, compelling follow-up to the stunning debut A Death of No Importance, featuring series character, Jane Prescott. In 1912, as New York reels from the news of the Titanic disaster, ladies' maid Jane Prescott travels to Long Island with the Benchley family. Their daughter Louise is to marry William Tyler, at their uncle and aunt's mansion; the Tylers are a glamorous, storied couple, their past filled with travel and adventure. Now, Charles Tyler is known for putting down New York's notorious Italian mafia, the Black Hand, and his wife Alva has settled into domestic life. As the city visitors adjust to the rhythms of the household, and plan Louise's upcoming wedding, Jane quickly befriends the Tyler children's nanny, Sofia--a young Italian-American woman. However, one unusually sultry spring night, Jane is woken by a scream from the nursery--and rushes in to find Sofia murdered, and the carefully locked window flung open. The Tylers believe that this is an attempted kidnapping of their baby gone wrong; a warning from the criminal underworld to Charles Tyler. But Jane is asked to help with the investigation by her friend, journalist Michael Behan, who knows that she is uniquely placed to see what other tensions may simmer just below the surface in this wealthy, secretive household. Was Sofia's murder fall-out from the social tensions rife in New York, or could it be a much more personal crime?
Subjects: Historical fiction; Detective and mystery fiction; Mystery fiction; Social classes; Lady's maids; Nannies; Household employees; Murder; Upper class;
© 2020., Minotaur Books ,
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An elegant madness : high society in Regency England / by Murray, Venetia.;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 290-295) and index.
Subjects: Aristocracy (Social class); Elite (Social sciences); Upper class; Nobility; Gentry; Regency;
© 1999., Viking,
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The chronicles of Downton Abbey / by Fellowes, Jessica.; Sturgis, Matthew.; Barratt, Joss.; Briggs, Nick.; Keyte, Giles,1970-;
"The Chronicles of Downton Abbey, carefully pieced together at the heart and hearth of the ancestral home of the Crawleys, takes readers deeper into the story of every important member of the Downton estate. This lavish, entirely new book focuses on each character individually, examining their motivations, their actions, and the inspirations behind them."--Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects: Downton Abbey (Television program); Upper class; Household employees; Country homes;
© 2012., St. Martin's Press,
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The great Gatsby / by Fitzgerald, F. Scott(Francis Scott),1896-1940.;
Jay Gatsby had once loved beautiful, spoiled Daisy Buchanan, then lost her to a rich boy. Now, mysteriously wealthy, he is ready to risk everything to woo her back. This is the definitive, textually accurate edition of a classic of twentieth-century literature, The Great Gatsby. The story of the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan has been acclaimed by generations of readers; however the first edition contained a number of errors resulting from Fitzgerald's extensive revisions and a rushed production schedule.
Subjects: Man-woman relationships; Upper class; Rich people; Traffic accidents; First loves; Mistresses; Revenge; Psychological fiction.; Love stories.;
© 2004, ©1925, renewed 1953 by Frances Scott Fitzgerald Lanahan., Scribner,
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The Pallisers [videorecording] / by David, Hugh.; Wilson, Ronald.; Lisemore, Martin.; Hampshire, Susan,1942-; Latham, Philip,1929-; Massey, Anna.; Murray, Barbara,1929-2014.; Culver, Roland,1900-1984.; Chappell, Herbert.; Raven, Simon,1927-2001.; Trollope, Anthony,1815-1882.Palliser novels.; Acorn Media (Firm); RLJ Entertainment.;
All region DVD, 4:3 original aspect; dual layer; Dolby digital.Susan Hampshire, Philip Latham, Anna Massey, Barbara Murray and Roland Culver.Editor, Mike Crisp ; music, Herbert Chappell ; costume designer, Raymond Hughes ; production designers, Raymond Cusick, Richard McManan-Smith, Tim Harvey.Rating: Not rated.A sprawling BBC saga of wealth, passion, and power, set in the palatial country houses and grand Mayfair salons of mid-Victorian England. Chronicles twenty years in the life of an aristocratic dynasty moving through high society in the heyday of Queen Victoria's reign. Based on Anthony Trollope's six political novels-called the finest sequence of fiction ever written about British Parliamentary life.
Subjects: Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Television series.; Man-woman relationships; Husband and wife; Upper class families; Aristocracy (Social class); Historical television programs;
© [2013], Acorn ; distributed by RLJ Entertainment,
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The great Gatsby / by Merrick, David,1911-2000,film producer.; Clayton, Jack,1921-1995,film director.; Coppola, Francis Ford,1939-screenwriter.; Redford, Robert,actor.; Farrow, Mia,1945-actor.; Black, Karen,1939-2013,actor.; Wilson, Scott,1942-actor.; Waterston, Sam,actor.; Chiles, Lois,1947-actor.; Da Silva, Howard,1909-1986,actor.; Blossom, Roberts,actor.; Herrmann, Edward,1943-2014,actor.; Sullivan, Elliott,1907-1974,actor.; Dern, Bruce,actor.; Aldredge, Theoni V.,costume designer.; Box, John,1920-2005,production designer.; Riddle, Nelson,composer (expression); Slocombe, Douglas,1913-director of photography.; Rudolf, Gene,art director.; Laing, Robert W.,art director.; Mulligan, Herbert,set decorator.; Howitt, Peter,set decorator.; Priestley, Tom,editor of moving image work.; Motion picture adaptation of (work)Fitzgerald, F. Scott(Francis Scott),1896-1940.Great Gatsby.; Paramount Pictures Corporation,production company.; Warner Home Video (Firm),film distributor.;
DVD ; NTSC, region 1 ; wide screen ; Dolby Digital Mono or Dolby Digital 5.1 surround.Robert Redford, Mia Farrow, Karen Black, Bruce Dern, Scott Wilson, Sam Waterston, Lois Chiles, Howard Da Silva, Roberts Blossom, Edward Herrmann, Elliot Sullivan.Costumes by Theoni V. Aldredge ; production designer, John Box ; music supervised by Nelson Riddle ; director of photography, Douglas Slocombe ; art directors, Eugene Rudolf, Robert Laing ; set decorators, Herb Mulligan, Peter Howitt ; film editor, Tom Priestley.In 1920s Long Island, a mysterious American millionaire's efforts to recapture the sweetheart of his youth result in tragedy.MPAA rating: PG.Canadian home video rating: PG.Academy awards for Costume Design and Best Scoring - Original Song Score and Adaptation, 1974.
Subjects: DVD-Video discs.; Feature films; Film adaptations.; Historical films.; Feature films.; Fiction films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940; Upper class; Millionaires; Man-woman relationships; Rich people; Nineteen twenties;
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Near Prospect Park / by Levy, Lawrence H.,author.;
"It's December 1896, and after marrying a muckraking reporter, detective Mary Handley shifts her focus pursuing new cases to raising her newborn daughter. But when her husband is found dead, Mary knows that her next case must be solving his murder. Harper was working on a big story--did it get him killed? Mary's investigation soon leads to the very top of the New York food chain. Realizing she's outgunned, Mary turns to the one person who might be able to help: police commissioner Tedd Roosevelt. As the two dig deep into the underbelly of New York's social scene, they uncover a sinister plot exploiting the city's most vulnerable citizens."--Back cover.
Subjects: Mystery fiction.; Historical fiction.; Detective and mystery fiction.; Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919; Women private investigators; Murder; Husbands; Upper class; New York (N.Y.). Police Department;
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Dream hoarders : how the American upper middle class is leaving everyone else in the dust, why that is a problem, and what to do about it / by Reeves, Richard V.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-186) and index.Hoarding the dream -- A class apart -- Growing gains -- Inheriting class -- Market merit -- Opportunity hoarding -- Sharing the dream -- Check our privilege.It is conventional wisdom to focus on the wealth of the top 1 percent -- especially the top 0.01 percent -- and how the ultra-rich are concentrating income and prosperity while incomes for most other Americans are stagnant. But the most important, widening gap in American society is between the upper middle class and everyone else. Richard Reeves defines the upper middle class as those whose incomes are in the top 20 percent of American society. Income is not the only way to measure a society, but in a market economy it is crucial because access to money generally determines who gets the best quality education, housing, health care, and other necessary goods and services. As Reeves shows, the growing separation between the upper middle class and everyone else can be seen in family structure, neighborhoods, attitudes, and lifestyle. Those at the top of the income ladder are becoming more effective at passing on their status to their children, reducing overall social mobility. The result is not just an economic divide but a fracturing of American society along class lines. Various forms of "opportunity hoarding" among the upper middle class make it harder for others to rise up to the top rung. Examples include zoning laws and schooling, occupational licensing, college application procedures, and the allocation of internships. Upper middle class opportunity hoarding, Reeves argues, results in a less competitive economy as well as a less open society. Inequality is inevitable and can even be good, within limits. But Reeves argues that society should take effective action to reduce opportunity hoarding and thus promote broader opportunity.
Subjects: Middle class; Income distribution;
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