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Auchincloss, Louis.
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Upper class -- Fiction.
Rich people -- Fiction.
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Auchincloss, Louis.
Upper class -- Fiction.
Rich people -- Fiction.
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The friend of women and other stories /
Louis
Auchincloss
.
by
Auchincloss
,
Louis
.
Houghton Mifflin, c2007.
Call #:
FICTION AUC
Subjects
Upper class -- Fiction.
Rich people -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9780618718665
0618718664
Description:
212 p. ; 22 cm.
Contents:
L'Ami des femmes -- The devil and Rufus Lockwood -- The call of the wild -- The conversion of Fred Coates -- The omelette and the egg -- The country cousin.
Summary:
"The mysteries of character are at the heart of these six previously unpublished pieces. In the title story, a teacher at a private girls" school ruminates on a long career, wondering if he was right to encourage his students to find a life less constrained than the conventional one prescribed to them, or if he cruelly raised unrealistic expectations. In "The Country Cousin" -- a delightful one-act play -- a wealthy woman"s dependent niece unwittingly serves as the vehicle that reveals her rich relatives" self-involvement. From a boyhood friendship tested by the fabrications of the McCarthy era to an Episcopalian priest tormented by an autocratic headmaster,
Auchincloss
"s fiction illuminates the complications that ensue when our perceptions of other people"s character -- as well as our own -- are upended."--Publisher.
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Short stories.
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