The Lunch Club of Hillbridge, a band of earnest women who pursue Culture together, prepares to entertain the celebrated novelist Osric Dane, who proves to be crushingly superior. Then the club’s least respected member, Mrs. Roby, brings up the subject of Xingu, and the ladies discover just how much they are willing to pretend to know.
One of the wittiest satires Wharton ever wrote, short enough to read in a sitting. Download the free EPUB.