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.