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Wildly successful when it was first published in 1955, Patrick Dennis' Auntie Mame sold over two million copies and stayed put on the New York Times bestseller list for 112 weeks.

It was made into a play, a Broadway as well as a Hollywood musical, and a fabulous movie starring Rosalind Russell.

Since then, Mame has taken her rightful place in the pantheon of Great and Important People as the world's most beloved, madcap, devastatingly sophisticated, and glamorous aunt. She is impossible to resist, and this hilarious story of an orphaned ten-year-old boy sent to live with his aunt is as delicious a read in the twenty-first century as it was in the 1950s.

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"I reread and study Auntie Mame like a hilarious, glamorous bible where, among other wise lessons, one learns that true sophistication and innocence are two halves of the same glittering coin."
   CHARLES BUSCH, AUTHOR OF THE TALE OF THE ALLERGIST'S WIFE AND VAMPIRE LESBIANS OF SODOM

"Auntie Mame is the American Alice in Wonderland. It is also, incidentally, one of the most important books in my life. Its witty Wildean phrases ring in my mind, and its flamboyant characters still enamor me. Like Tennessee Williams, Patrick Dennis caught the boldness, vitality, and iridescent theatricality of modern American personality. In Mame's mercurial metamorphoses we see American optimism and self-invention writ large."
   CAMILLE PAGLIA, AUTHOR OF SEXUAL PERSONAE

"Mame Dennis is the grande dame of grand dames and I, for one, am thrilled that she's back among us. She is still hilarious, sparkling, and utterly indestructible despite the best efforts of time, neglect, and Lucille Ball."
   JOE KEENAN, EMMY-WINNING WRITER/PRODUCER FOR FRAZIER AND AUTHOR OF BLUE HEAVEN AND PUTTING ON THE RITZ

"Auntie Mame is a unique literary achievemen

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