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Theodore Roosevelt: The Rough Riders and an Autobiography (2004)

Reformer, rancher, conservationist, hunter, historian, police commissioner, soldier, the youngest man ever to serve as president of the United States--no other American public figure has led as vigorous and varied a life as Theodore Roosevelt. This volume brings together two fascinating autobiogr...

Theodore Roosevelt: The Rough Riders and an Autobiography (2004) by Louis Auchincloss
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The Embezzler (1993)

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 o...

The Embezzler (1993) by Louis Auchincloss
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The Scarlet Letters (2003)

With such classic works as The Rector of Justin and, more recently, Manhattan Monologues, Louis Auchincloss has long established himself as one of our "most useful and intelligent writers" (New York Observer). Now this American master offers his cleverest novel yet: a triumphant modern twist on t...

The Scarlet Letters (2003) by Louis Auchincloss
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Diary of a Yuppie (1987)

"And just what is a journal? A novel with the narrator, 'I'? Henry James disapproved of these; he said that they limited the tale to what the narrator could observe. The greater drama, according to him, was to see the observer observing." Auchincloss clearly has literary wisdom- and a keen reader...

Diary of a Yuppie (1987) by Louis Auchincloss
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I Come as a Thief (1972)

This is a story of guilt and expiation by one of the modern American masters of the novel. The time is right now and the place is Manhattan, with an occasional trip to the country where the rich and those on the way up repair for weekends and holidays. Tony Lowder is the able and good-looking gr...

I Come as a Thief (1972) by Louis Auchincloss
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The Collected Stories of Louis Auchincloss (1994)

My favorite story in this collection is "Gemlike Flame." Young Peter Westcott is abroad in Venice, rounding off his education on the Continent as young men and women did in those days, when he calls upon his older cousin Clarence "Clarry" McClintock who is abroad as an erstwhile painter and esthe...

The Collected Stories of Louis Auchincloss (1994) by Louis Auchincloss
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The Headmaster's Dilemma (2007)

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...

The Headmaster's Dilemma (2007) by Louis Auchincloss
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The Education Of Oscar Fairfax (1995)

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 upp...

The Education Of Oscar Fairfax (1995) by Louis Auchincloss
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Skinny Island: More Tales of Manhattan (1987)

Spanning a century in twelve beautifully written stories of Manhattan life, Skinny Island conveys Auchincloss's inimitable eloquence and style with slices of life that are an enduring and timeless part of American culture. "Sparkling and assured".--Time.

Skinny Island: More Tales of Manhattan (1987) by Louis Auchincloss
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The Cat And The King (1980)

The king in Louis Auchincloss' glittering novel is the Sun King, Louis XIV of France, whose fabled court at Versailles was the wonder of Europe; the cat is Louis' watchful chronicler, Louis de Rouvroy, second duc de Saint-Simon, author of the famous 'Memoirs' which are the definitive record of Lo...

The Cat And The King (1980) by Louis Auchincloss
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Three Lives

When she was seventeen years old she went to service in a bourgeois family, in the large city near her native town, but she did not stay there long. One day her mistress offered her maid—that was Anna—to a friend, to see her home. Anna felt herself to be a servant, not a maid, and so she promptly...

Three Lives by Louis Auchincloss
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I Come as a Theif

A dozen boys of high-school age stood about, watching. "Say, Tony, I've got a buck says you can't make two out of three." "He did last week." "Yeah? Some hot shot." Tony threw the ball. It rose in a perfect arc and dropped through the basket without touching the ring. "Jesus." "How's that buck lo...

I Come as a Theif by Louis Auchincloss
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Watchfires

The book shelves, behind glassed doors and beneath flat tops on which rested bronzes of stricken or striking animals—elk torn by wolves, bear fighting bear, lions crouched to spring—gleamed with the gold-tinted, backs of old folios and volumes of prints. The walls above were hung with dark Madonn...

Watchfires by Louis Auchincloss
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A Voice From Old New York: A Memoir of My Youth

Teachers, Beloved and Otherwise BOVEE WAS A PRIVATE day school for boys from six to the age of twelve when they were apt to be sent off to boarding school. It occupied a tall brown stone building on Fifth Avenue opposite the Central Park Zoo, through which we were marched two by two at recess but...

A Voice From Old New York: A Memoir of My Youth by Louis Auchincloss
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East Side Story

ESTELLE ESTELLE CARNOCHAN, David's sister, the youngest of the seven children of James and Louisa, was their only daughter, and being pretty, blond, and very bright, she was the family pet. Her perennially delicate health—the early signs of tuberculosis—only added to the domestic affection. She w...

East Side Story by Louis Auchincloss
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The Young Apollo and Other Stories

I have to make up my mind, and soon, whether or not I shall accede to Senator Manning's request that I compose a short life of his son, Lionel, or "Lion" as we elders used to call him. It is now five years since Lion died of heart failure, aged thirty-one, in 1913, just before the outbreak of the...

The Young Apollo and Other Stories by Louis Auchincloss
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False Gods

"Your first love, my dear Reggie Turner, as I well recall, was literature. Before you decided to become a priest, you were all for being a writer. Well, maybe that is just the way to work your problem out. First by putting down on paper exactly what it is. Surely you must recognize that a release...

False Gods by Louis Auchincloss
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Powers of Attorney

Abercrombie MRS. ABERCROMBIE would have been with Tower Tilney & Webb, come December, a grand total of forty years and was scheduled to be retired in the spring on her sixty-fifth birthday, when she and Mr. Abercrombie, an already pensioned accountant, planned to move to a new ranch house at ...

Powers of Attorney by Louis Auchincloss
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Exit Lady Masham

The Queen would hardly leave his bedchamber. The dear, unfortunate man, as patient in agony as he had been complacent in health, lay motionless and speechless, emitting no sound but his stertorous breathing, surrounded by doctors who, I very much fear, only tortured him. The Queen, her eyes misty...

Exit Lady Masham by Louis Auchincloss
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Skinny Island

Supreme Court—it seemed to her that her life also was over. What remained would be as gray as the ashes of an Indian widow who has committed suttee, a dignified passivity, a kind of subdued suspension of any real living. She was perfectly aware, if with a certain complacency, that she was hopeles...

Skinny Island by Louis Auchincloss
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The Dark Lady

Her father, an amateur student of Gothic art who had even written a private monograph on apsidal chapels, was in the habit of taking his large family with him on French ecclesiastical tours, and Clara at an early age had learned the names of all the saints who appeared in the niches and the symbo...

The Dark Lady by Louis Auchincloss
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The Lady of Situations

Knight's Natica became a near obsession to Stephen. Between classes, at his desk, his mind would wander from the text he was preparing for assignment to recapture the sharp quick step with which she entered the dining hall and the open friendly smile she would toss in his direction as she passed ...

The Lady of Situations by Louis Auchincloss
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Theodore Roosevelt

In a photograph of Lincoln’s New York funeral procession there can be seen the mansion of Cornelius Van Schaack Roosevelt, one of the city’s ten millionaires with a fortune based in real estate and merchandising plate glass. Watching from one of the windows are two little boys, believed to be Cor...

Theodore Roosevelt by Louis Auchincloss
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Her Infinite Variety

She had a steady beau, Stuart Madison, a very serious and dedicated young diplomat, a friend ever since the old Bar Harbor days when the Madisons and Miltons had been neighbors on the Shore Path, but he was en poste in the Republic of Panama and not due home for a year. Stuart fully intended to s...

Her Infinite Variety by Louis Auchincloss
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Honorable Men

CHIP THE INVASION went off easily, without damage to any of Hastings’s flotilla, because they landed in Gold Beach, where the German opposition was not as strong as in the others. But on their second trip to Normandy, while they were waiting offshore at anchor for the tide to go out before disemb...

Honorable Men by Louis Auchincloss
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The Friend of Women and Other Stories

NELLIE HONE   ELIDA RODMAN, her niece   ALICE, a maid   CAROLINE HONE, Mrs. Hone’s daughter-in-law   ALEXANDER HONE, Mrs. Hone’s son   WINTHROP DELANCEY   MISS EMILY HARCROSSE   MISS HARRIET HARCROSSE, Emily’s sister *** SCENE 1: Living room of Mrs. Hone’s apartment on upper Park Avenue, New York...

The Friend of Women and Other Stories by Louis Auchincloss
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The Golden Calves

She was calm again, but it was the calmness of detachment, perhaps of indifference. She sat immobile in her bed, her hands resting on the border of the neatly drawn spread, and gazed at him with wide eyes which seemed faintly to question his being there, but more on the ground of the loss of his ...

The Golden Calves by Louis Auchincloss
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Manhattan Monologues

It was not that he was a distinguished historical figure—he wasn't. He lived the life, as my mother once put it, of a "charming idler," the adequately endowed New York gentleman of Knickerbocker forebears who had dedicated his existence to sport and adventure. But he was also a hero—that was the ...

Manhattan Monologues by Louis Auchincloss

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