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  • THE HOUSE OF THE PROPHET
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    THE HOUSE OF THE PROPHET
    LOUIS AUCHINCLOSS
    The House of the Prophet is Louis Auchincloss's searching novel of Felix Leitner, one of the most influential men of his time. Political philosopher, columnist, adviser to American presidents, Leitner will doubtless bring to many readers' minds the late Walter Lippmann, portrayed in the fine biography by Ronald Steel. Indeed, in his new introduction, Auchincloss makes plain tha...

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  • THE FRIEND OF WOMEN AND OTHER STORIES
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    THE FRIEND OF WOMEN AND OTHER STORIES
    LOUIS AUCHINCLOSS
    Short fiction examining the mysteries of human character, from a New York Times–bestselling author acclaimed as "among the best in American literature" ( Kirkus Reviews).   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 t...

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  • LAST OF THE OLD GUARD
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    LAST OF THE OLD GUARD
    LOUIS AUCHINCLOSS
    A prominent lawyer in 1940s New York investigates the mystery of his partner's life and death in this novel by a New York Times–bestselling author.   Nearing the end of his days, Adrian Suydam, half the partnership of the law firm of Suydam & Saunders, reflects on his lifelong friendship and business relationship with Ernest Saunders—a tragic and complicated man incapable of pr...

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  • A VOICE FROM OLD NEW YORK
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    A VOICE FROM OLD NEW YORK
    LOUIS AUCHINCLOSS
    An "entertaining and occasionally even moving" personal recollection by the lawyer, historian, and renowned chronicler of old-money WASP society ( The Boston Globe). At the time of his death, Louis Auchincloss—enemy of bores, self-pity, and stale gossip—had just finished taking on a subject he had long avoided: himself. His memoir confirms that, despite the spark of his fiction...

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  • THE HEADMASTER'S DILEMMA
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    THE HEADMASTER'S DILEMMA
    LOUIS AUCHINCLOSS
    In The Headmaster's Dilemma, Louis Auchincloss revisits the prep school world of his most famous novel. That book, The Rector of Justin, published in 1964, took the form of a fictional biography, giving the reader the full life story of a much beloved and revered, if also feared, headmaster of an exclusive New England prep school. In The Headmaster's Dilemma, we see up close wh...

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  • THE YOUNG APOLLO
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    THE YOUNG APOLLO
    LOUIS AUCHINCLOSS
    Short stories from a New York Times–bestselling author, in settings ranging from Edwardian garden parties to 1970s Manhattan.   While bringing to life stories of the past filled with privilege and glamour, these tales also explore their characters' less than savory ambitions and desires. In the title story, an older man eulogizes his young friend—a muse to the artists he gather...

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  • EAST SIDE STORY
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    EAST SIDE STORY
    LOUIS AUCHINCLOSS
    A "novel of power and hypocrisy in upper-class New York" that follows the rise of one prominent family, generation after generation ( The New Yorker). How did the families who live on Manhattan's Upper East Side get to where they are today? This engaging saga by a New York Times–bestselling author charts the rise of an uncommon family in America's grandest city.   East Side Sto...

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  • THE SCARLET LETTERS
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    THE SCARLET LETTERS
    LOUIS AUCHINCLOSS
    A New York Times–bestselling author puts a modern twist on the Nathaniel Hawthorne classic with this novel of wealthy 1950s society.   The year is 1953, and the coastal village of Glenville, on the opulent north shore of Long Island, is shaken by scandal. Ambrose Vollard, the managing partner of a prestigious Wall Street law firm, gets word of an alleged affair in his family. M...

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  • MANHATTAN MONOLOGUES
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    MANHATTAN MONOLOGUES
    LOUIS AUCHINCLOSS
    From a New York Times–bestselling author, short stories of the privileged class, spanning a century of New York history: "Urbane, humorous . . . a treat to read." — Library Journal Sublime master of manners, exquisite critic of the upper crust, and beloved American author Louis Auchincloss is at his wry, brilliant best with this collection of ten short stories about New York ar...

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  • HER INFINITE VARIETY
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    HER INFINITE VARIETY
    LOUIS AUCHINCLOSS
    From one of America's greatest men of letters, our sublime master of manners, comes his novel, Her Infinite Variety. Louis Auchincloss has been called "our most astute observer of moral paradox among the affluent" (Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.), and his fiction described as that which "has always examined what makes life worth living" ( Washington Post Book World). Now he brings us ...

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  • SKINNY ISLAND
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    SKINNY ISLAND
    LOUIS AUCHINCLOSS
    Twelve stories contemplating destiny and detailing the life of Manhattan's upper class over the course of one hundred years, from the author of Honorable Men. 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 an...

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  • POWERS OF ATTORNEY
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    POWERS OF ATTORNEY
    LOUIS AUCHINCLOSS
    Tales that take you behind the scenes of a powerful New York law firm, from the New York Times–bestselling author of The Partners. Ambition, jealousy, desire, hatred, deceit—they're all there inside the Wall Street law offices of Tower, Tilney & Webb, the setting for these interwoven stories set in the 1960s from Louis Auchincloss, who practiced law while also writing acclaimed...

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