Glittering Decadence

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The Picture of Dorian Gray (Penguin Popular Classics)
1.  The Picture of Dorian Gray (Penguin Popular Classics) by Oscar Wilde
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  "The original and best, a horror tale of decadence dripping with jewel-like aphorisms."
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Vile Bodies (Penguin Modern Classics)
2.  Vile Bodies (Penguin Modern Classics) by Evelyn Waugh
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  "The original Bright Young Things party their way to destruction.  Innovative for the time, with its phone conversations and use of technology."
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The Pursuit of Love
3.  The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford
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  "Is to modern chick-lit what a cordon bleu repast is to a microwave ready meal."
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Love in a Cold Climate
4.  Love in a Cold Climate by Nancy Mitford
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  "You can't sample Pursuit of Love without following it with its delicious second course."
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Stranger Than... - The Naked Civil Servant
5.  Stranger Than... - The Naked Civil Servant by Quentin Crisp
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  "Replete with 'Crispisms', every line is an acerbic, sparkling joy."
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Cold Comfort Farm (Essential Penguin)
6.  Cold Comfort Farm (Essential Penguin) by Stella Gibbons
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  "What happens when a socialite repairs to the countryside and does a little spring cleaning of lives and loves at the ancestral homestead.  Adorable."
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Jeeves and Wooster Omnibus: The Mating Season; the Code of the Woosters; Right Ho, Jeeves
7.  Jeeves and Wooster Omnibus: The Mating Season; the Code of the Woosters; Right Ho, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse
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  "A fantastic introduction to the addictive world of Jeeves and Wooster.  Every single line brings a smile."
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The Diaries of Kenneth Tynan
8.  The Diaries of Kenneth Tynan by John Lahr
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  "Gossip from London's theatre world in the 1960s, and musings on 1970s Hollywood.  Also, Tynan's obsession with sex and his bowels makes him strangely endearing!"
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A Handful of Dust (Penguin Modern Classics)
9.  A Handful of Dust (Penguin Modern Classics) by Evelyn Waugh
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  "Sharp, witty and yet elegaic, with a heartbreakingly astonishing twist at the end."
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Bonjour Tristesse (Essential Penguin)
10.  Bonjour Tristesse (Essential Penguin) by Francoise Sagan
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  "A hedonistic teenager enjoys blinding sunshine, fast boys and fast cars on the French Riviera -- but goes too far."
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Breakfast at Tiffany's
11.  Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
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  "Capote actually envisioned Marilyn Monroe as Miss Golightly, the Californian ingenue, 'a fake, but a real fake, she believes it all', bewitching everyone she meets in postwar New York."
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The Vesuvius Club: A Lucifer Box Novel (Lucifer Box 1)
12.  The Vesuvius Club: A Lucifer Box Novel (Lucifer Box 1) by Mark Gatiss
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  "A louche, macabre, sexy, hilarious adventure."
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The Great Gatsby (Pocket Penguin Classics)
13.  The Great Gatsby (Pocket Penguin Classics) by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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  "The tale of an American dandy with a glittering social life and a dark, destructive secret."
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