Franklin Library Louis Auchincloss books:
Diary of a Yuppie - signed first edition - 1986
Exit Lady Masham - signed first edition -1983
The Rector of Justin - signed limited edition - 1977
The Winthrop Covenant - limited first edition -1976
Diary of a Yuppie
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 in a big New York law firm.
Bob's
"perfect' marriage to the graceful and intelligent Alice is no match for
the ardor of his corporate drive. And it certainly pales beside his
explosive affair with Sylvia, whose naked ambition matches his own and
whose social connections provide the ultimate bridge to the pinnacles of
success.
How Bob Service marches toward his fate while trampling on
his associates and crippling his marriage forms the plot of this
fast-paced novel about modern mores and life on the fast track of the
big law firms. Office intrigue and duels for power rival anything that
Machiavelli could have conjured up. And in Louis Auchincloss's hands, it
all has an unnervingly authentic ring.
Louis Auchincloss began his
law career at a Wall Street firm after attending Yale and the University
of Virginia Law School. He is a member of the National Institute of
Arts and Letters and president of the Museum of the City of New York.
This is his thirty-eighth book, the most recent being The Book Class and
Honorable Men.
Exit Lady Masham
In this witty
historical novel by the author of Watchfires , a poor woman joins the
eighteenth-century court of Queen Anne and ends a war.
On the
Continent, John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough, is laying waste to the
lowlands in a bloody combat with Louis XIV. Meanwhile at the British
court, Queen Anne, aging, ill, and surrounded by sycophants, is coping
with the intrigues of those who wish to promote Marlborough’s dangerous
ambitions. Chief among the plotters is his headstrong wife (and court
favorite), Sarah Churchill.
Into this tense and steamy
environment comes young Abigail Hill, Sarah’s impoverished cousin. Sarah
has arranged for her to be a maid to the Queen. But Abigail will
discover that she has been marked by destiny for a special mission,
which is nothing less than to bring to a halt a destructive world war.
How she accomplishes this is the subject of this unusual but
historically justified tale . . .
The drama of court life and
high politics, the growing antagonism between Sarah and Abigail, and an
engaging cast of characters make for a lively narrative. And the
portrait of Queen Anne is a tour de force that lends further depth to
this vivid and engaging book.
The Rector of Justin
Regarded
as one of Louis Auchincloss's most accomplished novels, The Rector of
Justin centers on Frank Prescott, the founder of an exclusive school for
boys. Eighty years of his life unfold through the observations of six
narrators, each with a unique perspective on the man, his motivations,
and the roots of his triumphs and failings.
The Winthrop Covenant
The
Winthrop Covenant is a collection of nine stories, thematically related
and arranged chronologically from 1630 to 1970s. They are designed to
trace, by the use of fiction and dramatized history, the rise and fall
of the Puritan ethic in New York and New England. The characters of the
stories are different members of the Winthrop family but only John and
Wait Still are modeled on actual persons.
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