Louis Auchincloss: 37 books

Book cover of The Collected Stories of Louis Auchincloss
by Louis Auchincloss
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014

This New York Times–bestselling author’s story collection “displays consistent excellence in observing the spheres of art, law, money and society” (Publishers Weekly). Whether set in the world of Wall Street, the nineteenth-century Virginia aristocracy, or a boys’ school in New England,...
Book cover of The Cat and the King
by Louis Auchincloss
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 1981

A cat may look at a king, says an old proverb. The king is the Sun King, Louis XIV of France, whose fabled court at Versailles was the wonder of Europe; the cat is the watchful chronicler, Louis de Rouvroy, second duc de Saint-Simon, author of the famous Memoirs which are the definitive record of...
Book cover of The Man Behind the Book

The Man Behind the Book

Literary Profiles

by Louis Auchincloss
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 1996

For Louis Auchincloss, life and letters are not two things but one. It therefore comes as no surprise that when he writes about writers, their lives are considered as closely as 'their works. He takes what today is a refreshingly unpopular position: that the artist and his art carinot be teased apart,...
Book cover of A Voice from Old New York

A Voice from Old New York

A Memoir of My Youth

by Louis Auchincloss
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2010

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...
Book cover of Manhattan Monologues
by Louis Auchincloss
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2002

**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...
Book cover of East Side Story

East Side Story

A Novel

by Louis Auchincloss
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2004

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...
Book cover of The Rector of Justin
by Louis Auchincloss
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2002

“[A] certifiable masterpiece” from the acclaimed chronicler of New York City’s old money elite (The New York Observer). Widely considered Louis Auchincloss’s greatest novel, The Rector of Justin is an astute dissection of the social mores of the Northeast’s privileged establishment....
Book cover of Tales of Yesteryear
by Louis Auchincloss
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014

Spanning most of the decades of the twentieth century, this entertaining collection of stories reveals the inner lives of America's upper classes in the polished, elegant prose that is Louis Auchincloss's signature. The intricate balance of power in a marriage, the artist's hunger for inspiration,...
Book cover of Dark Lady
by Louis Auchincloss
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 1977

The offices, penthouses, and suburban chateaux of New York are the setting for Louis Auchincloss's The Dark Lady. Spanning three decades from the 1930s to the McCarthy era, the novel chronicles a powerful woman's rise and the human toll it exacts. In a world where birth and style count nearly...
Book cover of The Book Class
by Louis Auchincloss
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1984

A sparkling and profound consideration of women and power: the power of intellect, of money, of integrity, and of loyalty, love and self-respect. “If I have a bias it is in my suspicion that women are intellectually and intuitively superior to men,” writes Christopher Gates, the elegant,...
Book cover of The Winthrop Covenant
by Louis Auchincloss
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 1976

In a powerful chronicle, spanning three centuries of the Winthrop family in New England and New York, Louis Auchincloss portrays the rise and fall of the Puritan ethic. Through a richly diverse gallery of men and women, both real and fictional, he illuminates the personal and social conflicts that...
Book cover of Diary of a Yuppie
by Louis Auchincloss
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 1986

Bob Service, the protagonist of this deft and chilling novel of contemporary ambition and greed, is a thirty-two-year-old crack lawyer with blood as cold and clear as a five-dollar martini. Bob's god is power and his morals are ever tempered by expediency. His goals far exceed an imminent partnership...
Book cover of The Friend of Women and Other Stories
by Louis Auchincloss
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012

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...
Book cover of Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt

The American Presidents Series: The 26th President, 1901-1909

by Louis Auchincloss
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013

An intimate portrait of the first president of the 20th century The American century opened with the election of that quintessentially American adventurer, Theodore Roosevelt. Louis Auchincloss's warm and knowing biography introduces us to the man behind the many myths of Theodore Roosevelt....
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