Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich

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.

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• Arcadian adventures with the idle rich by stephen leacock by humorous fiction audiobooks
• Stories
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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.

The fourth story in the book features a character that caricatures the religious leader 'Abdu'l-Bahá, who visited Leacock's resident city of Montreal in 1912.