A compendium of beautiful thoughts for women of taste and splendor. Edward Monkton, perhaps better known as the U.K."s top-selling living poet Giles Andreae, pairs a witty and quirky writing style with simple yet elegant illustrations to celebrate the four bastions of femininity, namely: shoes, chocolate, purses, and clothes. Be it a handbag of glory, the shoes of salvation, the beautiful frock, or the kingdom of chocolate, Monkton fluidly expounds the virtues of many a lady"s desires: "Buy me, Lady," said the frock, "and I will make you into a Beautiful and whole and Complete Human Being." "Do not be silly," said the Man, "for a frock alone cannot do that." "True," said the Lady. "I will have the Shoes and the Bag as well."