Best Selling Books by Louis Auchincloss

A collection of eight short stories about people who have beautiful manners, plenty of money and a perfectly ghastly time all around.

The House of Five Talents is a fictional account of one of New York City''s wealthiest and most socially prominent families as told by the “old maid,” Aunt Gussie. The story creates an enchanting insight into New York society from the late 19th to the mid 20th centuries.--from Community review, Goodreads.com.

Author Louis Auchincloss suggests that great art flows from an author''s personality.

Chronicles an ambitious young woman''s rise through the New York aristocracy.

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.

New York has always been a city of people proud of their possessions. Perhaps no genre of painting was more suitable for such display than the "conversation piece." Some outstanding conversation pieces are shown on the pages of this article.

When Aileen Tone went to live in Henry Adams'' house, she was thirty-four and he seventy-five. This Platonic union was to be closer than most marriages.

With the introduction is a letter offering it to a charitable auction [1 l. typescript signed 30 cm.]--The collection also contains chapters 3-17 of Reading Henry James [ca. 220 p. ms. & typescript]--A copy of the printed book is included.