Snobs - Julian Fellowes
Category: Humor
Tags: Humor, General Fiction, Adults
Publisher: Macmillan Audio Release date: April 30, 2010 Duration: 05:28:50, Wodehouse gets a modern twist in this brilliantly acerbic tale of snobbery and marital tomfoolery in 1990s London., Edith Lavery, the pretty daughter of an accountant, meets gossip-column favorite Charles Broughton (Earl of Broughton and heir to the Marquess of Uckfield) at Ascot. When he proposes and she accepts, does she really love him, or is she merely dazzled by his title and money?, Even after she is married, Edith is snubbed and humiliated at every turn (in the slyest, politest possible way, of course), until she moves out in a huff with her married lover, Simon Russell, an actor/ego-on-legs who is eating up the publicity that comes with being seen with a countess and eager for this entre into society (he doesnt realize Edith has been cast into the societal dung heap). To Ediths consternation, the glittering world of theater turns out to be just as small-minded and dull as that of society,, In a tale tha
