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Society as I Have Found It Audiobook, by Ward McAllister Play Audiobook Sample

Society as I Have Found It Audiobook

Society as I Have Found It Audiobook, by Ward McAllister Play Audiobook Sample
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Read By: Bronson Pinchot Publisher: Blackstone Publishing Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 3.67 hours at 1.5x Speed 2.75 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: July 2022 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9798200997961

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

27

Longest Chapter Length:

17:32 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

07:16 minutes

Average Chapter Length:

12:01 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

1

Publisher Description

Ward McAllister lived in the mid-to-late nineteenth-century USA. This audiobook encompasses his commentary on the parties held by the elite in the USA and Europe during that time.

Well-connected and well-traveled, McAllister describes the habits, trends, and wealth of the upper classes of society. As the author testifies, it was a time of transformative, unprecedented extravagance through the emergence of new technology and new prosperity.

The locations of the social gatherings which McAllister attended during this time aren’t limited to the USA, but encompass much of Europe as well.

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About Ward McAllister

Samuel Ward McAllister (1827–1895) was a popular arbiter of social taste in the Gilded Age of late-nineteenth-century America. He was widely accepted as the authority on which families could be classified as the cream of New York society.

About Bronson Pinchot

Bronson Pinchot, Audible’s Narrator of the Year for 2010, has won Publishers Weekly Listen-Up Awards, AudioFile Earphones Awards, Audible’s Book of the Year Award, and Audie Awards for several audiobooks, including Matterhorn, Wise Blood, Occupied City, and The Learners. A magna cum laude graduate of Yale, he is an Emmy- and People’s Choice-nominated veteran of movies, television, and Broadway and West End shows. His performance of Malvolio in Twelfth Night was named the highlight of the entire two-year Kennedy Center Shakespeare Festival by the Washington Post. He attended the acting programs at Shakespeare & Company and Circle-in-the-Square, logged in well over 200 episodes of television, starred or costarred in a bouquet of films, plays, musicals, and Shakespeare on Broadway and in London, and developed a passion for Greek revival architecture.