The Scarlet Letters (Auchincloss, Louis)
 But Auchincloss has his own voice and manner as author: We don't expect great writers to reproduce exactly ordinary speech. Nobody talks like the characters in Moby Dick, or Hamlet. Auchincloss is not Melville or Shakespeare, but he is writing on a [... more]
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The Education of Oscar Fairfax
Author: Louis Auchincloss Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54 EAN: 9780395739181 ISBN: 0395739187 Number Of Pages: 225 Publication Date: 1995-09-25 [... 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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The Warden (Modern Library Classics)
No doom and gloom in this Victorian novel.: Although its principal character, Mr Harding, the Warden of Barchester, suffers abject misery and extreme anxiety during most of this novel, the reader of "The Warden" will enjoy one of the happiest, [... 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]
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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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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 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 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 Friend of Women and Other Stories
Delicious snobby classic Auchincloss: No one writes of the New York uppercrust as does our venerable Louis. Not even Henry James or Edith Wharton capture the empty-hearted veneers with such elan and verve and always just the cleverest turn of phrase. The [... more]
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Writers And Personality
Author: Louis Auchincloss Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 809 EAN: 9781570035807 ISBN: 1570035806 Number Of Pages: 125 Publication Date: 2005-06-30 [... more]
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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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