In this volume, his 50th book, Auchincloss selects the stories he considers his best. Heavily influenced by Henry James and Edith Wharton, the stories chronicle the world Auchincloss has lived in all his life, that of upper-class professional New Yorkers. He states in his introduction: "The fashion in short stories of the past century has tended to favor those that deal with a single episode..., the turning on of a light, so to speak, to illuminate a room, but I have stuck to the leadership of Henry James and Edith Wharton ...
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In this volume, his 50th book, Auchincloss selects the stories he considers his best. Heavily influenced by Henry James and Edith Wharton, the stories chronicle the world Auchincloss has lived in all his life, that of upper-class professional New Yorkers. He states in his introduction: "The fashion in short stories of the past century has tended to favor those that deal with a single episode..., the turning on of a light, so to speak, to illuminate a 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."
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