Background
Auchincloss, Louis Stanton was born on September 27, 1917 in Lawrence, New York, United States. Son of Joseph Howland and Priscilla (Stanton) Auchincloss.
(Pioneers and Caretakers was first published in 1965. In a...)
Pioneers and Caretakers was first published in 1965. In a series of stimulating and highly readable essays, Mr. Auchincloss discusses the work of nine American women novelists in whom he finds a unity of common tradition. As the title of the book implies, Mr. Auchincloss regards these novelists as caretakers of our culture and, at the same time, as literary pioneers. The writers he discusses are Sarah Orne Jewett, Edith Wharton, Ellen Glasgow, Willa Cather, Elizabeth Madox Roberts, Katherine Anne Porter, Jean Stafford, Carson McCullers, and Mary McCarthy. In explaining his thesis Mr. Auchincloss writes: "In the migrations of tribes the women were responsible for the packing and preservation of the household goods. They have always been the true conservatives, the caretakers of the culture. But because in our nation we have to go back so few decades to get to the Indians, the functions of the caretaker and of the pioneer have become curiously blended. To preserve a bit of the American tradition, one has to preserve a bit of the frontier. "A notable thing about our women writers is that they have struck a more affirmative note than the men. Their darkness is not as dark as that of Dreiser or Lewis or Faulkner or O'Neill, which is not to say that they see America less clearly, but that they see it more discriminatingly. They have a sharper sense of their stake in the national heritage, and they are always at work to preserve it. They never destroy; they never want the clean sweep. They are conservatives who are always trying to conserve."
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( The Embezzler, first written in 1966, uses conflicting ...)
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. Inspired by the documented facts of the Wall Street fraud case that led the United States government to take control of the American stock market, Auchincloss then describes the case and its main players with credibility and skill, reinventing the facts of this historical event with skill. Given the financial crisis of 2008, and similar fraudulent schemes that have been exposed since, this is must reading. The Embezzler tells the life story of Guy Prime, who was born into wealth, enjoyed his youth, and eventually ended up in prison after he tried to secure loans against money he did not have and his embezzlements were revealed. Whatever the reasons for his gradual lapse into crime and his eventual disgrace, Guy Prime remains one of Louis Auchincloss's most engaging characters. Guy's gravest flaw appears not to be greed but rather a chronic tendency to misread human character. The story itself is told from three different viewpoints and narrators. Auchincloss's multi-narrator technique allows the reader to have a vivid sense of what transpired. This is classic Auchincloss, on a subject that illumines current events.
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(A new collection of eight stories by a critically acclaim...)
A new collection of eight stories by a critically acclaimed author spans most of the twentieth century in an examination of the inner lives of America's elite. 12,500 first printing. $12,000 ad/promo.
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( The Los Angeles Times has lauded Louis Auchincloss as "...)
The Los Angeles Times has lauded Louis Auchincloss as "a novelist committed to examining the complicated layers of character, psychology, and society." In The Friend of Women, that dedication shines on every page in the singular, epigrammatic style of an American master. The mysteries of character are at the heart of these six previously unpublished pieces. In the title story, a teacher at a private girls' school ruminates on a long career, wondering if he was right to encourage his students to find a life less constrained than the conventional one prescribed to them or if he cruelly raised unrealistic expectations. In "The Country Cousin" -- a delightful one-act play -- a wealthy woman's dependent niece unwittingly serves as the vehicle that reveals her rich relatives' self-involvement. Ranging from a boyhood friendship tested by the fabrications of the McCarthy era to an Episcopal priest tormented by an autocratic headmaster, Auchincloss's fiction illuminates the complications that ensue when our perceptions of other people's character -- as well as our own -- are upended.
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(   I gotthe germ of this tale from an incident in the...)
  I gotthe germ of this tale from an incident in the life of George Templeton Strong recorded in an unpublished section of his famous diary. I later developed it into an article which appeared in my volume of essays, Reflections of a Jacobite. My first attempt to fictionalize it was the short story "In the Beauty of the Lilies" that became a part of The Winthrop Covenant. This novel is my final development of the theme. - Louis Auchincloss
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(The lady of situations is Natica Chauncey, the daughter o...)
The lady of situations is Natica Chauncey, the daughter of a ruined financier who is forced to rely on a kindly matron for her glancing acquaintance with the aristocracy of Long Island. In this story the author paints a portrait of the manners and mores of the Establishment world in the USA.
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(Sparkling with wit and a pinch of satire, this is a delig...)
Sparkling with wit and a pinch of satire, this is a delightful first novel that is distinctively in the nature of a literary discovery. It presents an unique and intimate portrait of a well born, charming young man and his sophisticated friends, faced with the rather shattering realities of the last decade
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(Tales of Manhattan is divided into three parts with each ...)
Tales of Manhattan is divided into three parts with each story about a well-heeled resident of Manhattan-entrenched in power through family and money, these are the type of people that Louis Auchincloss understood, and chose to write penetrating stories about. Hardcover, 304pp.
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(Signed by the author, Louis Auchincloss. Limited first ed...)
Signed by the author, Louis Auchincloss. Limited first edition which preceded the trade edition. Gorgeously bound in red leather, intricately decorated on both covers in gilt, three raised bands, title, author, signed first edition statement and decoration to spine, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers and a red silk bookmark.
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(In this wise and masterly novel, Louis Auchincloss gives ...)
In this wise and masterly novel, Louis Auchincloss gives us a man who takes the measure of himself - and his times - with the art and insight of a new Henry Adams. Linking three generations of a Wall Street law firm, The Education of Oscar Fairfax provides a revealing portrait of the American upper classes throughout our century. The story opens in 1908, as St. Luke's Cathedral rises stone by stone on lower Broadway and young Oscar learns a lesson in compromise at the knee of its bishop, his grandfather. His schooling continues at St. Augustine's, where he sees a schoolmaster's high ideals exposed as fantasy, and at Yale, where Oscar's literary ambitions are tempered by a brilliant but ruthless classmate who proves that "the juiciest tidbit for many a writer is the hand that fed him." As an adult, Oscar is one who profoundly affects others, whether he is subtly influencing a Supreme Court justice during the New Deal era, acting as mentor to a talented local boy in a Maine resort town,
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(From 'A Special Message to the Members of The First Editi...)
From 'A Special Message to the Members of The First Edition Society': "These stories...are arranged chronologically from 1630 to the present day and are designed to trace, by the use of fiction and dramatized history, the rise and fall of the Puritan ethic in New York and New England. By Puritan ethic I mean that preoccupying sense, found in certain individuals, of a mission, presumably divinely inspired, toward their fellow men. To show how different puritans have accepted, converted, stood aside from or rejected the burden of this mission, I have chosen members of the Winthrop family...."
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( He is our sublime master of manners, our "most astute o...)
He is our sublime master of manners, our "most astute observer of moral paradox among the affluent" (Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.), and "one of the essential American writers" (Kirkus). Now, in his fifty-seventh book, Louis Auchincloss delivers a brilliant collection of ten new, previously unpublished, stories; once again, he unfailingly "voices truths with elegant precision" (Publishers Weekly). MANHATTAN MONOLOGUES charts a colorful New York century through a series of personal accounts from the rarefied circle that fills Auchincloss's best short fiction. Here are characters who confidently finesse their way through society's uppermost tiers and yet are just as easily undone by the smallest upset in a day. Like all of Auchincloss's richest creations, they bump up against their consciences, with often surprising results. What, for instance, is a woman to do when she must choose between true love and high society when making a marriage? How can a man stay true to himself, his family, and his country when it goes to war? How can a determined marriage broker salvage matters when the young man she has so painstakingly steered toward a love match becomes charmed by another woman? These tales, and many more, fashion a glamorous, yet all too human, societal portrait -- from the aristocratic loyalties of the early twentieth century to the complicated twists of modern-day mergers and acquisitions. MANHATTAN MONOLOGUES is Louis Auchincloss at his most clever, his most discerning, his best.
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(Louis Auchincloss, who has in the past explored and expos...)
Louis Auchincloss, who has in the past explored and exposed the worlds of Wall Street and Park Avenue with a keen and merciless pen, now turns his attention to a small but elegant museum on Central Park West and to the private lives of those whose commitment to art inevitably becomes confused with the pursuit of power. In this world, a romance conducted with a verve and articulateness worthy of Jane Austen and office power plays that would make Ivan Boesky blush seem totally appropriate. The tangle of art and business, idealism and venality, ambition and the yearning for love, is deftly unraveled, and, most satisfying of all, the tale ends in a highly satisfying way with both the principals and the reader wiser, happier, and more enlightened.
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(Louis Auchincloss tells the story of a large Manhattan la...)
Louis Auchincloss tells the story of a large Manhattan law firm - the kind of latter-day Olympus so rich and influential, so full of good grey heads, that it appears more a seat of government than a place of business. It is the belief that law is the very essence of America's eminence that sustains Timothy Colt and makes him the tirelessly dedicated young lawyer he is. And it is belief in Timothy that brings his wife, Ann, to tolerate his grinding hours at the office and what in another profession might be regarded as neglect to his family. But as Timothy Colt rises in the firm, the opportunity to see the conflict between ethics and ambition at the very heart of Sheffield, Knox & Dale is thrust upon him, and his disillusionment begins.
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( "Louis Auchincloss has an enveloping story to tell and ...)
"Louis Auchincloss has an enveloping story to tell and a perfect, understated knowledge of those who inhabit it," said the New York Times of The Scarlet Letters. The same can be said of Auchincloss's new novel, a tour de force that charts the rise of one uncommon family in America's grand city. How did the families who live on Manhattan's Upper East Side get to where they are today? As much a penetrating social history as it is engaging fiction, East Side Story tells of the Carnochans, a family whose Scottish forebears establish themselves in New York's textile business during the Civil War. From there they quickly move on to seize prominent positions in the country's top schools and Manhattan's elite firms. As the novel unfolds, family members across the generations recount their stories, illuminating lives steeped in both good fortune and moral jeopardy. From women who outsmart their foolish husbands, to ambitious lawyers who protect the Carnochan name, to the family's artists and writers, all weigh the question that infuses so much of Auchincloss's fiction: what makes for a meaningful life in a family that has so much? In its starred review, Kirkus Reviews hails Auchincloss for being "once again the master of his craft." East Side Story is both a loving and wicked look at New York's own as only this sublime master of manners can provide.
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(This book is in NEW Condition. This is the 1962 hardcover...)
This book is in NEW Condition. This is the 1962 hardcover edition from Louis Auchincloss. Extremely well cared for the past 50 years plus. Remarkable shape really. There is one small tear in the dust cover at the bottom. There are no other signs of wear. FAST AMAZON SHIPPING!
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(This is a very touching story of a little girl who ends u...)
This is a very touching story of a little girl who ends up in a Catholic orphanage in the 1950's. This terrifying institution with child abuse, sexual abuse and starvation was the home of many little girls.
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(Edith Wharton was not only a great lady of American lette...)
Edith Wharton was not only a great lady of American letters but also a highly talented woman who chose a career in literature in a period when serious writing was considered "too inky for ladies" and when only a passing acquaintance with the arts was deemed necessary. As she was later to comment, she was always thought too fashionable to be intelligent and too intelligent to be fashionable. This pictorial biography helps explain and recapture the ambiance of that bygone era, highlighting the life of an exceptional woman and novelist in this important period. Includes the intricate connection between Wharton's character Vance Weston and Thomas Wolfe, with a full-page photo of Wolfe and a description of Wolfe's Weston family.
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(Part sociology, part royal gossip, this glossy, readable ...)
Part sociology, part royal gossip, this glossy, readable book follows Victoria from her submissive childhood through her domineering reign. Auchincloss - a Wall Street lawyer and novelist (The Winthrop Covenant) - paints the Queen as less pompous than have previous biographers. But he is really more concerned with the courtly higher-ups around her and provides a non-Victorian, savvy lowdown. With its plentiful illustrations, this is a fascinating introduction to the era.
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(Three distinguished novels from a master of American fict...)
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 and his attention to detail.
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(This is an evocative, spirited, and captivating history o...)
This is an evocative, spirited, and captivating history of the first four generations of the Vaanderbilt's, America's foremost shipping and railroad tycoons.
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(A gallery of portraits which gathers its wit and resonanc...)
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.
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(Franklin Center, PA The Franklin Library 1976 Limited fir...)
Franklin Center, PA The Franklin Library 1976 Limited first edition Hardcover Illustrated by Jerry Pinkney Clean, tight copy. ; Brown leather volume, gilded page edges, satin ribbon page marker, silk moire endleaves, and raised bands on spine with gilt lettering. This Limited First Edition has been privately printed exclusively for Members of the First Edition Society. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall The Winthrop Covenant is a collection of nine stories, thematically related and arranged chronologically from 1630 to 1970s. They are designed to trace, by the use of fiction and dramatized history, the rise and fall of the Puritan ethic in New York and New England. The characters of the stories are different members of the Winthrop family but only John and Wait Still are modeled on actual persons. (adapted from author's foreword)
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(No one else writes about the moral life of America's mone...)
No one else writes about the moral life of America's moneyed class with anything approaching Louis Auchincloss's understanding, sympathy, irony, and humor. In this, his first book of short fiction since the acclaimed Collected Stories, he again brings us news that no other writer can deliver, news about how America's great families and fortunes are run and the axes and crises on which they turn. Here is how the privileged view their privilege - some with smugness, some with style, some with a crushing sense of civic and personal responsibility. Here is how the rich marry, how they divorce, and, more important, why. Here, definitively and indelibly, is the eastern seaboard's Wasp establishment - sometimes in its glory, more often in its decline, and always with its values, assumptions, and increasingly fragile sense of self held up for our scrutiny by a master, the most subtle critic of American manners since Edith Wharton.
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( An evocative and elegant collection of new stories from...)
An evocative and elegant collection of new stories from an American master. Bringing together twelve previously unpublished pieces, The Young Apollo and Other Stories sparkles with Auchincloss's singular style, and, like East Side Story, his most recent book, reveals in precise, aphoristic prose "not only the textures of this world but also its elemental and evolving truths" (New York Times). From Edwardian garden parties to the Manhattan demimonde of the 1970s, Auchincloss travels with economical grace and agility in this collection, which illuminates the moral ambiguities, both personal and professional, of New York’s moneyed class. A loving chronicle of a waning world, this new collection is nonetheless an acute and gimlet-eyed portrait that refuses to shy away from its characters' less than savory ambitions and desires. In the title story, an older man eulogizes his young friend, the golden Lionel Manning--muse to the artists he gathered round himself and preserved forever in memory as the beautiful thirty-one-year-old man he was at death--only to reveal that despite Lionel’s burgeoning reputation as a poet, he could inspire genius but not produce it. The Young Apollo and Other Stories crystallizes a world now gone but forever fixed in our romantic imaginations, uncovering its flaws and all too human foibles, as well as its considerable charms.
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( In this elegant collection of stories, Louis Auchinclos...)
In this elegant collection of stories, Louis Auchincloss once again evokes the beguiling, complex world of New York society that he has made his own special literary landscape. Inspired by the colorful mosaic of ancient Greek myths, he has created six equally rich contemporary fables — six lives governed by false gods. Hermes, or in Auchincloss's ironic interpretation, "god of the self-made man," is a Jewish lawyer who finds acceptance into WASP society only at greatest personal cost; Hephaestus is a bachelor designer of Palladian villas whose young bride, enamored of newfangled things, compels him to "go modern." In other stories, a former World War II naval officer, guided perhaps by the goddess Athene, escapes a sinking cruise ship by disguising himself as a woman; and a Catholic convert, distracted by the muse Polyhymnia, is torn between his priestly duties and his worldly social and artistic ambitions. In every tale a unique moral sensibility holds sway, revealing how the pagan impulse may surface in the most unlikely and provocative situations, compromising even the noblest of spirits. Keenly insightful, flawlessly executed, False Gods is the work of a master storyteller, widely acclaimed as American society's most entertaining and intelligent critic.
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( It's only twelve miles long and two miles wide, but it ...)
It's only twelve miles long and two miles wide, but it has more money for its area, more history packed into its relatively brief settlement, and more emotional and intellectual energy coursing through its streets than any other place on earth. Manhattan is the setting for all of Louis Auchincloss's fiction, and it is the stage on which those New Yorkers whose roots go down to its bedrock play out the drama of their lives. From the turn of the century to our present urban follies, these stories follow the fortunes of the socially secure and powerful as they try to cope with the changes shaped by the momentous events and growing anxieties of recent decades. Taken together, the tales weave a larger pattern of human strengths and foibles that bemuses the mind and touches the heart. The elegant prose, crystalline dialogue, immense insight into the mores, preoccupations, and afflictions of the rich, and the connoisseur's sense of both art and life that are characteristic of Auchincloss—all are here, but with a depth of passion and irony exceeding anything he has accomplished in the past.
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( From one of America's greatest men of letters, our subl...)
From one of America's greatest men of letters, our sublime master of manners, comes his long-awaited new novel, HER INFINITE VARIETY. Louis Auchincloss has been called "our most astute observer of moral paradox among the affluent" (Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.), his fiction described as that which "has always examined what makes life worth living" (Washington Post Book World). Now he brings us the rollicking tale of an unforgettable woman of mid-twentieth century America: the devilish, forever plotting, yet wholly beguiling Clara Hoyt. A romantic early in life, Clara gets engaged -- much to her mother's horror -- to the lackluster Bobbie Lester. Soon after her Vassar graduation, however, Clara sees the error of her ways, spurns Bobbie, and slyly enthralls the well-bred and fabulously wealthy Trevor Hoyt, the first of her husbands. Soon she lands a job at a tony magazine, and so begins her wildly entertaining course to the inner sanctum of New York's aristocracy and into the boardrooms of the publishing world. In a world where women still had to wield the weapons of allure and charm, above all else, to secure positions of power, Clara, one of the last of her kind, succeeds marvelously. Auchincloss gives us, in Clara, an irresistible Cleopatra, lovely, wily, and mercurial. As Shakespeare wrote of that feminine creation, "Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale / Her infinite variety."
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Auchincloss, Louis Stanton was born on September 27, 1917 in Lawrence, New York, United States. Son of Joseph Howland and Priscilla (Stanton) Auchincloss.
Student, Yale University, 1939. Bachelor of Laws, University Virginia, 1941. Doctor of Letters (honorary), New York University, 1974.
Doctor of Letters (honorary), Pace University, 1979. Doctor of Letters (honorary), University of the South, 1986.
Associate, Sullivan & Cromwell, 1941-1951; associate, Hawkins, Delafield & Wood, New York City, 1954-1958; partner, Hawkins, Delafield & Wood, New York City, 1958-1986.
(Auchincloss' tale of a New York family dynasty opens with...)
(Louis Auchincloss, who has in the past explored and expos...)
(The Rector of Justin continues Auchincloss's analytical p...)
(Edith Wharton was not only a great lady of American lette...)
(Tales of Manhattan is divided into three parts with each ...)
( It's only twelve miles long and two miles wide, but it ...)
(A gallery of portraits which gathers its wit and resonanc...)
(Louis Auchincloss tells the story of a large Manhattan la...)
(Three distinguished novels from a master of American fict...)
(Cloth; Fine; Dust Jacket - Like New; " Elegant, crisp, an...)
(Like a latter-day Olympus, the large Manhattan law firm o...)
(The lady of situations is Natica Chauncey, the daughter o...)
( The Embezzler, first written in 1966, uses conflicting ...)
( In this elegant collection of stories, Louis Auchinclos...)
(In this wise and masterly novel, Louis Auchincloss gives ...)
( "Louis Auchincloss has an enveloping story to tell and ...)
(A new collection of eight stories by a critically acclaim...)
(This is an evocative, spirited, and captivating history o...)
( Regarded as one of Louis Auchincloss's most accomplishe...)
(No one else writes about the moral life of America's mone...)
( The Los Angeles Times has lauded Louis Auchincloss as "...)
(   I gotthe germ of this tale from an incident in the...)
(   I gotthe germ of this tale from an incident in the...)
(Part sociology, part royal gossip, this glossy, readable ...)
(Sparkling with wit and a pinch of satire, this is a delig...)
( From one of America's greatest men of letters, our subl...)
(A collection of short stories by Louis Auchincloss, deali...)
(Franklin Center, PA The Franklin Library 1976 Limited fir...)
( He is our sublime master of manners, our "most astute o...)
(This is a very touching story of a little girl who ends u...)
(From 'A Special Message to the Members of The First Editi...)
( An evocative and elegant collection of new stories from...)
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Trustee emeritus Josiah Macy, Junior, Foundation. President, Museum City of New York, 1966-1990. Lieutenant United States Naval Reserve, 1941-1945.
Member American Academy of Arts and Letters (president emeritus), Association Bar City New York, Century Association.
Married Adele Lawrence, September 1957 (deceased 1991). Children: John, Blake, Andrew.