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9780395970744 | Houghton Mifflin, July 1, 1999, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: In a new volume of short fiction, nine previously unpublished stories explore the moral dilemmas of American high society as it focuses on individuals looking back over the course of their lives, including a clergyman preparing for his twenty-fifth wedding anniversary while remembering his wife's five-year affair.
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9780395868263 | Houghton Mifflin, September 1, 1997, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: An acclaimed novelist and observer of the social and moral life of America's upper class presents a collection of stories tracing how the nation's wealthy dynasties are run and how the privileged wrestle with their fortunes good and ill.
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9780395361382 | Houghton Mifflin, August 1, 1984, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A rich tapestry of life, passion, triumph, tragedy, and illumination unfolds against the backdrop of the Book Class, twelve women from the heights of New York society who meet monthly over sixty years to discuss selected literary works
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9780395302255 | Houghton Mifflin, February 1, 1981, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: An elegant, fictive portrait of the glittering court at Versailles under the powerful monarchy of Louis XIV evokes the complex intrigues, both amorous and political, of his legendary courtiers
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9780231102483, titled "A Century of Arts and Letters: The History of the National Institute of Arts & Letters and the American Academy of Arts & Letters As Told, Decade by Decade, by Eleven Members" | Columbia Univ Pr, June 1, 1998, cover price $50.00
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9780735100510, titled "Collected Stories of Louis Auchincloss" | Replica Books, November 1, 1998, cover price $38.00 | About this edition: A collection of the author's most noted short works includes 'The Romantic Egoists,' 'Skinny Island,' and 'Tales of Yesteryear'
9780395710395 | Houghton Mifflin, December 1, 1994, cover price $24.95 | also contains The Mountaintop School for Dogs and Other Second Chances | About this edition: A collection of the author's most noted short works includes 'The Romantic Egoists,' 'Skinny Island,' and 'Tales of Yesteryear'
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9780395266878 | Houghton Mifflin, August 1, 1978, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: Rebelling against Old Guard New York society, Amy Hunt runs off with a married man, returns disgraced, marries the family lawyer, and lives happily until the blackmail begins
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9780395254028 | Houghton Mifflin, June 1, 1977, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: After two destructive marriages and a bout with alcohol, well-born Elesina Dart is stage-managed by fashion-magazine editor Ivy Trask into a marriage with wealthy Judge Irving Stein and into a relentless campaign for unqualified attention and power
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9780810936737 | Harry N Abrams Inc, October 1, 1994, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: BRAND NEW!
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9780896217461 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, October 1, 1986), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Driven by an insatiable hunger for power, Bob Service, a thirty-two-year-old New York lawyer whose morals are tempered by expediency, tramples his associates and cripples his marriage
9780395416495 | Houghton Mifflin, September 1, 1986, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Driven by an insatiable hunger for power, Bob Service, a thirty-two year-old New York lawyer whose morals are tempered by expediency, tramples his associates and cripples his marriage
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9780312907617 | Reprint edition (St Martins Pr, September 1, 1987), cover price $3.95 | About this edition: Driven by an insatiable hunger for power, Bob Service, a thirty-two year-old New York lawyer whose morals are tempered by expediency, tramples his associates and cripples his marriage
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9780618452446 | Houghton Mifflin, December 2, 2004, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: The story of the rise of a New York family, the Carnochans, from their early arrival in America from Scotland to their rise to prominence and wealth, recounts the lives and fortunes of diverse members of the family across generations.
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9780020303008 | Collier Books, November 1, 1989, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Gathers selections from Wharton's memoirs, short stories, poetry, and major novels
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9781931082860 | Library of America, October 6, 2005, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Features a range of previously unpublished works as well as pieces written in response to World War I, in a comprehensive survey that that sheds light on how Wharton used poetry to express the deeply emotional side of her nature.
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9788493591410 | Libros Del Asteroide, January 1, 2007, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: Born to a privileged minority in the early 20th century, Oscar Fairfax’s life develops smoothly, from the prestigious St.
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9780395739181 | Houghton Mifflin, October 1, 1995, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: A portrait of America's upper crust over the twentieth century offers a close character study of a talented Wall Street lawyer with literary ambitions who tries to bridge the gap between two very different generations
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9780816603176 | Univ of Minnesota Pr, January 1, 1964, cover price $25.00
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9780765807786 | Large print edition (Transaction Pub Large Print, February 1, 2002), cover price $32.95
9781568491516 | Buccaneer Books, June 1, 1993, cover price $21.95
9781568491516 | Buccaneer Books, June 1, 1993, cover price $21.95
9781555043865 | Large print edition (John Curley & Assoc, March 1, 1988), cover price $20.95 | About this edition: Set in the New York Stock Exchange world of love, adultry, high finance, and betrayal, this novel is a character study of a Wall Street man who embezzles money during the Depression
9780395073629 | Houghton Mifflin, June 1, 1966, cover price $5.95 | About this edition: 6"x8 3/4" 277 page hardcover published by Houghton Mifflin Company in 1966-Stated First Printing.
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9781412813266 | 1 lrg edition (Transaction Pub Large Print, May 1, 2010), cover price $41.95 | About this edition: The Embezzler, first written in 1966, uses conflicting narrative voices and viewpoints to illuminate the fabled dimensions of American economic history as it was then understood.
9781555045050 | Large print edition (John Curley & Assoc, February 1, 1988), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Set in the New York Stock Exchange world of love, adultry, high finance, and betrayal, this novel is a character study of a Wall Street man who embezzles money during the Depression
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9780395343883 | Houghton Mifflin, October 1, 1983, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Young Abigail Hill, an impoverished cousin of Sarah Churchill who becomes a maid to Queen Anne, is called upon to prevent a bloody war between the Duke of Marlborough and Louis XIV
Traces the history, culture, and society of seventeenth-century Europe through the lives of such outstanding women as Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, Madame de Maintenon, Queen Anne, Queen Mary II, Abigail, Lady Masham, and others
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9780385180214 | Anchor Books, August 1, 1984, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Traces the history, culture, and society of seventeenth-century Europe through the lives of such outstanding women as Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, Madame de Maintenon, Queen Anne, Queen Mary II, Abigail, Lady Masham, and others
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9780395604755 | Houghton Mifflin, January 1, 1992, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: Blends ancient Greek myths with the contradictions of modern New York society--Hermes is a Jewish lawyer, and Hephaestus in a designer of Palladian villas--to create six fables that comment on how impulse and desire can weaken moral sensibilities
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9780883658253 | Reprint edition (Galahad Books, May 1, 1993), cover price $11.98 | About this edition: Three distinguished novels from a master of American fiction--The Rector of Justin, The House of Five Talents, and Portrait in Brownstone--illustrate the author's knowledge of high society.
Dan Ruggles is a man well-ensconced in the moneyed, mannered world of high society in the 1930s, trying to discern the dreams, doubts, and loyalties of his friends, as well as his own
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9780816148950 | Large print edition (G K Hall & Co, July 1, 1990), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Dan Ruggles is a man well-ensconced in the moneyed, mannered world of high society in the 1930s, trying to discern the dreams, doubts, and loyalties of his friends, as well as his own
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9780395498538 | Houghton Mifflin, March 1, 1989, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Dan Ruggles is a man well-ensconced in the moneyed, mannered world of high society in the 1930s, trying to discern the dreams, doubts, and loyalties of his friends, as well as his own
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9780312923914 | Reprint edition (St Martins Pr, December 1, 1990), cover price $3.95 | About this edition: A gallery of portraits which gathers its wit and resonance from the discerning eye of the central narrator, Dan Ruggles, who in the course of unravelling the dreams, doubts and loyalties of those around him, inevitably reveals his own.
Hardcover:
9780618718665 | Houghton Mifflin, March 9, 2007, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: Features six pieces that include the title story about a teacher at a private school for girls as he reflects on his long career, and 'The Country Cousin,' a one-act play about the hidden lives of members of a wealthy family.
Hardcover:
9781570031229 | Univ of South Carolina Pr, November 1, 1996, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: In this collection of essays, Auchincloss considers the text of 17th-century French dramatists, Corneille and Racine.
9781570031229 | Univ of South Carolina Pr, November 1, 1996, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: In this collection of essays, Auchincloss considers the text of 17th-century French dramatists, Corneille and Racine.
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