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The style's the man, reflections on Proust, Fitzgerald, Wharton, Vidal, and others, Louis Auchincloss

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The style's the man, reflections on Proust, Fitzgerald, Wharton, Vidal, and others, Louis Auchincloss

Language

eng

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no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The style's the man

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29702449537614

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Louis Auchincloss

Sub title

reflections on Proust, Fitzgerald, Wharton, Vidal, and others

Table Of Contents

The wit of Ivy Compton-Burnett -- William Gaddis -- The tragic mood in early Jacobean drama -- The inner FDR -- The Waste land without Pound -- Babylon revisited: Gore Vidal's America trilogy -- Remembering Marguerite Yourcenar -- The two Marcels of Proust -- Portrait of the artist as Strether -- Pater and Wilde: aestheticism and homosexuality -- "My dear blest Percy!": Percy Lubbock and Edith Wharton -- Courtship in Congreve -- Clarissa revisited -- Tennessee Williams: the last Puritan -- The Lyttelton-Hart-Davis letters -- Henry James: the theatre years -- Tamburlaine: existential hero -- Three "perfect novels" and what they have in common

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