Louis Auchincloss - The Indifferent Children Prentice-Hall, 1964 390 str. tvrdi povez stanje: vrlo dobro (writing as Andrew Lee) Sparkling with wit and a pinch of satire, this is a delightful first novel that is distinctively in the nature of a literary discovery. It presents an unique and intimate portrait of a well born, charming young man and his sophisticated friends, faced with the rather shattering realities of the last decade. For his first novel, The Indifferent Children (1947), Auchincloss used the pseudonym Andrew Lee, but by 1950 he was publishing stories under his own name. Noted for his stylistic clarity and skill at characterization, he became the prolific chronicler of life in the rarefied world of corporate boardrooms and brownstone mansions. As a novelist, Auchincloss was less interested in the... Louis Stanton Auchincloss was an American novelist, historian, and essayist. Among Auchincloss`s best-known books are the multi-generational sagas The House of Five Talents, Portrait in Brownstone, and East Side Story. Other well-known novels include The Rector of Justin, the tale of a renowned headmaster of a school like Groton trying to deal with changing times, and The Embezzler, a look at white-collar crime. Auchincloss is known for his closely observed portraits of old New York and New England society. Fiction