What do Plato, Jane Austen, Dickens, Proust and Jackie Collins have in common? They all wrote a good party. In A CURIOUS INVITATION, Suzette Field, who co-runs London’s premier party promoters The Last Tuesday Society --- casts her professional eye over some famous fictional festivities: taking place everywhere from ancient Babylon in 500 BC to outer space in the distant future. Find out who was there, what they wore, what they ate and drank and what (and who) they talked about in this invaluable guide to the greatest parties in literature.