The Rector of Justin
 what is a Christian gentleman?: This book surprised me by having a lot of substance. This multiple-narrator novel provides a shifting portrait of a fictional New England Episcopal boarding school headmaster - a legend in his time. It's like a Tom Brown's [... more]
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The Cruise of The Vanadis
Enchanted by the brightness: How quietly The Cruise of the Vanadis glides into its place among the spring books. Even the foreword by Louis Auchincloss stops short of calling this first American appearance of an early travel diary of Edith Wharton's a [... more]
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A Backward Glance: An Autobiography
You Wouldn't Call Her "Edy": Such a lovely child, so patient and well behaved. New York and its society are made magic by her eyes. The opening sections of this memoir are a delight as Mrs. Wharton recounts the sights and feel of New York City [... more]
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East Side Story: A Novel
Author: Louis Auchincloss Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54 EAN: 9780618452446 Edition: 1 ISBN: 0618452443 Number Of Pages: 240 Publication Date: 2004-11-04 [... more]
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The Warden
Unfulfilled expectations: This book was difficult to read as it contains references to the religious life of the Anglican church in Victorian Ebgland, events and politics quite unfamiliar to the American reader. The main plot about the Rev. Harding is [... more]
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The Age of Innocence
From Amazon.com: Somewhere in this book, Wharton observes that clever liars always come up with good stories to back up their fabrications, but that really clever liars don't bother to explain anything at all. This is the kind of insight that makes The [... more]
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The Friend of Women and Other Stories
Author: Louis Auchincloss Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54 EAN: 9780618718665 Edition: 1 ISBN: 0618718664 Number Of Pages: 224 Publication Date: 2007-02-07 [... more]
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The Headmaster's Dilemma: A Novel
The headmaster's tedium: Louis Auchincloss has been chronicling the antics of wealthy, perpetually dissatisfied WASPs for longer than my mother has been alive. But it seems that he's running out of steam in "The Headmaster's Dilemma," a flaccid [... more]
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Her Infinite Variety
Not as good as expected: Being a fan of Mr. Auchincloss, I found this less than satisfactory. His prose and conversations are beautiful, but I think he borrowed from Pamela Harriman's life too much. I wonder if she would see herself as Clara. There is [... more]
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Penguin Lives Woodrow Wilson
lacks substance and depth: Cecil Spring-Rice, the British ambassador to Washington, described Woodrow Wilson as "a mysterious, a rather Olympian personage and shrouded in darkness from which issue occasional thunderbolts." At least to his [... more]
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