The Young Visiters - Daisy Ashford

Note: This is a book is on pre-order. We will be shipping by Nov. 22nd 

Wholesale and International Orders

November 2023 // 89 pages // 4.5 x 7 inches

"Mr Salteena was an elderly man of 42 and was fond of asking peaple to stay with him."

A sensational bestseller when it first appeared in 1919, The Young Visiters is a most unusual comedy of manners. Written when author Daisy Ashford was nine years old, this short novel charts the hapless Mr. Salteena's rise into British high society and the cost he pays for it. With him are a cast of vivid and eccentric characters: his young girlfriend Ethel Monticue, his conniving friend Bernard Clark, and a rather casual King Edward VII. Body image, class anxiety, age-gap relationships, very little is out of bounds for Ashford's withering observations. Included in this Paradise Editions reprint is the classic original introduction by Peter Pan author J.M. Barrie along with an afterword by acclaimed novelist Caleb Crain.

"Quite the most humorous thing that ever found its way into print.” — The New York Times

"A silly world, in other words—a world where everyone is either preening themselves on their status or scheming to acquire more of it; a world where no one seems to be interested enough in other people, in and for themselves, to be capable of receiving any serious harm at their hands. The satire is accordingly ruthless." — Caleb Crain, Public Books