Louis S Auchincloss

Manhattan Monologues: Stories

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 Now, in his fifty-seventh book, Louis Auchincloss delivers a brilliant collection of ten new, previously unpublished, s...

A Voice from Old New York: A Memoir of My Youth

At the time of his death, Louis Auchincloss—enemy of bores, self-pity, and gossip less than fresh—had just finished taking on a subject he had long avoided: himself. His memoir confirms that, despite the spark of his fiction, Auchincloss himself was the most entertaining character he has created. No...

East Side Story: A Novel

"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 ...

Family Fortunes: The Rector of Justin/the House of Five Talents/Portrait in Brownstone

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.

The Collected Stories of Louis Auchincloss

A collection of the author's most noted short works includes ""The Romantic Egoists,"" ""Skinny Island,"" and ""Tales of Yesteryear,"" and features the author's non-traditional style of the passage of time.

POWERS OF ATTORNEY PA

Last of the Old Guard

The American master Louis Auchincloss offers an intimate look behind the closed doors of a prominent New York law firm.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 Saun...

The Embezzler

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 ...

Louis Auchincloss

Louis Stanton Auchincloss (September 27, 1917 January 26, 2010) pronounced AWK-in-claus was an American lawyer, novelist, historian, and essayist. He is best known ...