Louis Auchincloss
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Pub. Date
2002.
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English
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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. The story centers on Rev. Frank Prescott, the charismatic founder and rector of a prestigious Episcopal school for boys. With laser-sharp insight, Auchincloss delivers a prismatic portrait of this commanding and complicated man through the eyes of those who knew-or thought they knew-him...
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English
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A romantic early in life, Clara Hoyt 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...
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Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1995.
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English
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A novel of manners featuring an upper-class Wasp. He is Oscar Fairfax, a Wall Street attorney whose grandfather was an Episcopal bishop. He went to Yale, travelled a great deal, is well-read and has no complexes about his money or his values. By the author of Tales of Yesteryear.
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