Elegant Wits and Grand Horizontals by Cornelia Otis Skinner

Elegant Wits and Grand Horizontals

Cornelia Otis Skinner

262 pages first pub 1962 (editions)

nonfiction historical history funny informative lighthearted slow-paced

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The 1890s in Paris were a decade of elegance and perception, a heady mixture of high intellect and frivolous vivacity. Never has there been a period when "ladies" so commanded society, from a position so frequently horizontal - or when wit, so soo...

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