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A Backward Glance: An Autobiography
The writing life, uncloseted: In this orderly collection of autobiographical sketches Edith Wharton - generously and with nearly photographic recall - begins by inviting readers into her early life in nineteenth-century New York. We are treated to its [... more]
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The Age of Innocence (Modern Library Classics)
Amazon.com Review: 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 Anniversary and Other Stories
Amazon.com Review: Louis Auchincloss had four decades to perfect his art before embarking on this, his 55th book, and all that practice shows. The prose in The Anniversary, a collection of nine short stories, harks back to an earlier age--the days of [... more]
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The House of Mirth (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
Amazon.com Review: "The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth," warns Ecclesiastes 7:4, and so does the novel by Edith Wharton that takes its title from this call to heed. New York at the [... more]
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The Rise of Silas Lapham
Mogul with a conscience: William Dean Howells's "The Rise of Silas Lapham" is one of the earliest American novels about a businessman, and that qualification alone makes it a literary curiosity, but what is most remarkable about it is what its [... more]
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Her Infinite Variety
Interesting but not Gripping: I found this novel interesting from a historical perspective. The change in the role of women in the United States has been one of the most major points of progess in the 20th century. This novel explores some of the issues [... more]
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Manhattan Monologues: Stories
PENNED WITH GRACE AND PERCEPTION: One of America's most respected authors, Louis Auchincloss has just given us a gift - his 57th book, Manhattan Monologues. As one expects from this celebrated chronicler of upper-class society, the prose is precise and [... more]
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Her Infinite Variety: A Novel
Interesting but not Gripping: I found this novel interesting from a historical perspective. The change in the role of women in the United States has been one of the most major points of progess in the 20th century. This novel explores some of the issues [... more]
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East Side Story: A Novel
Perfect example of the genre: Auchincloss continues to amaze me. When I saw this book in the "new fiction" stack at the library, I was astounded, since I would have thought the author would have either passed away, or at least stopped writing, [... more]
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The Rector of Justin (Modern Library)
Creative and Clever, But With Unresolved Tension: Louis Auchincloss recommended The Rector of Justin to me as a starting point, as I was unfamiliar with his writing. Then he chuckled and said that he doesn't claim that it's his best, only that it has [... more]
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The Mother's Recompense
A Mother's Dilemma: Written in 1925, this less well-known novel by Edith Wharton examines a mother's dilemma. Kate Clephane, the heroine of this novel, deserted her wealthy husband and young daughter twenty years before, when she fled the social [... more]
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The Rector of Justin: A Novel
Creative and Clever, But With Unresolved Tension: Louis Auchincloss recommended The Rector of Justin to me as a starting point, as I was unfamiliar with his writing. Then he chuckled and said that he doesn't claim that it's his best, only that it has [... more]
$13.95
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