About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work.

From longtime New Yorker writer and author of In the Early Times, Tad Friend's "side-splittingly funny" Cheerful Money is both a gorgeously written family memoir and a sharp cultural study of the decline of the American WASP (Mary Karr).

Twelve short stories which are typical of the good work one expects of Miss Ferber.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.