upper class

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upper class

The great Gatsby

1992
The tragic story of the wealthy Jay Gatsby and his attempt to win back the love of Daisy Buchanan.

America's Gilded Age

intimate portraits from an era of extravagance and change, 1850-1890
1989
Focuses on the lives of thirty-six Americans from 1850 to 1890.

Evening is the whole day

2008
The firing of a servant girl in the household of the wealthy Rajasekharans, an Indian immigrant family in Malaysia, devastates six-year-old Aasha who knows a secret that, if revealed, could crack the carefully created facade of the outwardly proud, successful family.

Displaying women

spectacles of leisure in Edith Wharton's New York
1998

An elegant madness

high society in Regency England
1999
A social history of Regency England that profiles the era's politics, clothing, traditions, and courtesans.

Learning privilege

lessons of power and identity in affluent schooling
2008
Presents ten essays that discuss the relationship between education and economic privilege.

Educating elites

class privilege and educational advantage
2010
A collection of studies that inquires into the experiences of privilege in educational environments to gauge educational inequality, rather the traditional studies focusing on poverty-disadvantaged school.

Rules of civility

2012
Twenty-five-year-old Katey Kontent, having met banker Tinker Grey while hanging out at a Greenwich Village jazz bar, finds her way into the upper echelons of New York society, and, as she makes new friends and waits for circumstances to bring Tinker back into her life, she begins to realize she regrets some of the choices she has made.

The darlings

2012
Paul Ross accepts a job working on the legal team for his billionaire father-in-law's hedge fund and must determine where his loyalties lie when a scandal and a regulatory investigation threaten the family business.

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