The Collected Stories of Louis Auchincloss

✍ Scribed by Auchincloss, Louis

• Book ID: 108585895
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 720 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780544343511

✦ Synopsis

"Auchincloss belongs among the masters of American short fiction," Kirkus Reviews recently noted, calling for "a fat collection spanning his forty-plus years of story-writing." Here at last is just that book, a treasury of Louis Auchincloss's finest stories and novellas, selected by the author.
In his introduction to this volume, Auchincloss writes, "The fashion in short stories of the past half-century has tended to favor those that deal with a single episode . . . the turning on of a light, so to speak, to illuminate a dark room. But I have stuck to the leadership of Henry James and Edith Wharton . . . in giving my tales the scope of months, even of years." Indeed, Auchincloss deftly condenses time in much of his fiction, and the light he sheds on his startlingly real characters — their choices, their foibles, their delusions, their alliances — is all the more revealing for it.
Essential for Auchincloss's loyal followers and a perfect introduction...