Evelyn Delivers the Paperboy
The simple story of a gorgeous girl who grows up to make an advantageous marriage with the rich boy next door, and her friendship with the not-so-rich boy on the other side who she delights in tormenting over a lifetime, provides the pretext for this morally instructive farce about self-adoring oligarchs and the people who proudly do their bidding.
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Blurbs from Fictional Characters I Admire:
It lacks, for better or worse, the temperate oft-vaunted subtlety of my creator’s animosity to the horrors of rank and privilege. – Emma Woodhouse
Rumpbustious! [sic] – Falstaff
Thoughtful books bore me. Even The Custom of the Country, which is about me, bores me everywhere the focus is not on me. – Undine Spragg
Another day, another smelly human who delights in horrifying the other animals on the farm with the nasty truth about how nasty we are until she gets what she wants, which is self-justification for her own nastiness. – Benjamin, the Donkey