Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich

Author(s): Stephen Leacock

Genre(s): Humorous Fiction

Narrators: Linda Lee Paquet, Joelle Peebles, Linda Ferguson, Patti Cunningham, Kate Adams

Number of Chapters: 15

Length: 6 hours and 46 minutes

Language: English

"Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich" is a work of humorous fiction by Stephen Leacock first published in 1914. It is the follow-up to his 1912 classic "Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town." Like that work, it is a sequence of interlocking stories set in one town, but instead of focusing on a small Canadian town in the countryside, it is set in a major American metropolis and its characters are the upper crust of society.

Although currently not as well-known as the earlier book, "Arcadian Adventures" was extremely popular in North America at the time of its publication and for a while was considered the greater success. It was also translated and published by the Bolshevik government soon after the 1917 revolution and it became a bestseller in the Soviet Union. (Summary by Wikipedia)