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Seven Against Reeves

其他書名	A Comedy-farce
出版	Doubleday, Doran, Incorporated, 1938
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=r-khAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋John Reeves retires from the City at fifty, looking forward to twenty years of doing as he pleases. His wife has social ambitions, and pays Hawksneetch, a pretentious young man, to introduce them to nobility, celebrities and artists. Reeves finds all of these unpleasant; the artists are all pretentious modernists. He finds himself expected to buy paintings he dislikes, and to subsidise a raucous composer. The family travel in Europe, where they meet more artistic parasites and aristocratic crooks; the daughter becomes engaged to a gigolo. Reeves finally gets the opportunity to stand up to his family.