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Louis Auchincloss has written 75 work(s)
Hardcover:
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'
Hardcover:
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
Hardcover:
9780892440238, titled "Great World and Timothy Colt" | Queens House, April 1, 1981, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: [Read by Brian Emerson] Like a latter-day Olympus, the large Manhattan law firm of Sheffield, Knox & Dale is so rich and influential, so full of good grey heads, that it is more like a seat of government than a place of business.
Paperback:
9780070024458 | Reprint edition (McGraw-Hill Book Co, June 1, 1987), cover price $4.95 | About this edition: [Read by Brian Emerson] Like a latter-day Olympus, the large Manhattan law firm of Sheffield, Knox & Dale is so rich and influential, so full of good grey heads, that it is more like a seat of government than a place of business.
CD/Spoken Word:
9781441713506, titled "The Great World & Timothy Colt" | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, March 1, 2013), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: [Read by Brian Emerson] Like a latter-day Olympus, the large Manhattan law firm of Sheffield, Knox & Dale is so rich and influential, so full of good grey heads, that it is more like a seat of government than a place of business.
Cassette/Spoken Word:
9780786111992 | Blackstone Audio Inc, December 1, 1997, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: Like a latter-day Olympus, the large Manhattan law firm of Sheffield, Knox & Dale is so rich and influential, so full of good grey heads, that it is more like a seat of government than a place of business.
Hardcover:
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.
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.
Hardcover:
9780395827482 | Houghton Mifflin, November 1, 1996, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: In a collection of literary essays, the author explores the life and work of twenty-three writers, ranging from such masters as Henry James to lesser-known novelists
Hardcover:
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
Hardcover:
9780810936737 | Harry N Abrams Inc, October 1, 1994, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: BRAND NEW!
Hardcover:
9780684197425 | Scribner, September 1, 1994, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: Essays discuss Ivy Compton-Burnett, William Gaddis, Jacobean drama, Marcel Proust, Oscar Wilde, Walter Pater, William Congreve, Tennessee Williams, Henry James, and three perfect novels
A collection of eight stories spans most of the twentieth century in an examination of the inner lives of America's elite
Hardcover:
9780786202355 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, May 1, 1994), cover price $23.95
9780395691328 | Houghton Mifflin School, March 1, 1994, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: A collection of eight stories spans most of the twentieth century in an examination of the inner lives of America's elite
Hardcover:
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.
Hardcover:
9780395655672 | Houghton Mifflin, January 1, 1993, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Stories introduce a man whose pursuit of the good life makes him aware of his emotional bankruptcy, a woman who engineers her husband's ascent as a lawyer, and a man who lives his life according to the ascetic example of his investment-banking mentor
Hardcover:
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
Hardcover:
9780395544112 | Houghton Mifflin, July 1, 1990, cover price $20.95 | About this edition: Armed with only her wits and determination, Natica Chauncey, the daughter of a ruined financier, must succeed in the cutthroat society into which she was born--New England prep schools, Hudson Valley estates, and New York drawing rooms
Paperback:
9780792708308 | Large print edition (John Curley & Assoc, July 1, 1991), cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Armed with only her wits and determination, Natica Chauncey, the daughter of a ruined financier, must succeed in the cutthroat society into which she was born--New England prep schools, Hudson Valley estates, and New York drawing rooms
Hardcover:
9780312059842 | St Martins Pr, May 1, 1991, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Unmarked book with light wear, US media shipping only, due to size.
Hardcover:
9780816131334 | Large print edition (G K Hall & Co, November 1, 1980), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: As Felix Leitner, a celebrated lawyer and political commentator, dies by degrees in a nursing home, his life story is revealed through the eyes of his two ex-wives, his stepdaughter, and Roger Cutter, his longtime research assistant
9780395290842 | Houghton Mifflin, February 1, 1980, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: As Felix Leitner, a celebrated lawyer and political commentator, dies by degrees in a nursing home, his life story is revealed through the eyes of his two ex-wives, his stepdaughter, and Roger Cutter, his longtime research assistant
Paperback:
9780887388576, titled "House of the Prophet" | Reprint edition (Transaction Pub, March 1, 1991), cover price $27.95 | About this edition: As Felix Leitner, a celebrated lawyer and political commentator, dies by degrees in a nursing home, his life story is revealed through the eyes of his two ex-wives, his stepdaughter, and Roger Cutter, his longtime research assistant
9780395305201 | Houghton Mifflin, April 1, 1981, cover price $3.95 | About this edition: As Felix Leitner, a celebrated lawyer and political commentator, dies by degrees in a nursing home, his life story is revealed through the eyes of his two ex-wives, his stepdaughter, and Roger Cutter, his longtime research assistant
Hardcover:
9780395554425 | Houghton Mifflin, January 1, 1991, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: A series of short essays explores friendships among literary and political luminaries such as Boswell and Johnson, Florence Nightingale and Arthur Hugh Clough, and Fitzgerald and Hemingway
Hardcover:
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
Paperback:
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:
9780810936102 | Harry N Abrams Inc, November 1, 1990, cover price $45.00
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Paperback:
9780312920067 | Reprint edition (St Martins Pr, July 1, 1990), cover price $4.50 | About this edition: WONDERFUL COPY.
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
Hardcover:
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
Offers twenty-one biographical sketches profiling members of four generations of one of America's wealthiest families, focusing primarily on the elder generations
Hardcover:
9780684191126 | Scribner, May 1, 1989, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Offers twenty-one biographical sketches profiling members of four generations of one of America's wealthiest families, focusing primarily on the elder generations
Paperback:
9780020303107, titled "The Vanderbilt Era: Profiles of a Gilded Age" | Reprint edition (Collier Books, June 1, 1990), cover price $10.00
The New York art world provides the setting for public and private ranges of commitment and greed, idealism and venality, selfishness and yearing, and dedication and ambition
Hardcover:
9780816146826 | Large print edition (G K Hall & Co, November 1, 1989), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: The New York art world provides the setting for public and private ranges of commitment and greed, idealism and venality, selfishness and yearning, and dedication and ambition
9780395476918 | Houghton Mifflin, May 1, 1988, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: The New York art world provides the setting for public and private ranges of commitment and greed, idealism and venality, selfishness and yearning, and dedication and ambition
Paperback:
9780312914875 | Reprint edition (St Martins Pr, March 1, 1990), cover price $3.95 | About this edition: The New York art world provides the setting for public and private ranges of commitment and greed, idealism and venality, selfishness and yearing, and dedication and ambition
Paperback:
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
Hardcover:
9780896599048 | Abbeville Pr, October 1, 1989, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Gathers selections from the diaries of two prominent nineteenth century citizens of New York City in which they discuss the social, political, and economic aspects of city life
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