Louis Auchincloss (Critical Survey of Long Fiction)

Other Literary Forms

While best known as a novelist, Louis Auchincloss became a prolific and successful writer in a variety of other literary forms. Among his strongest collections of short fiction are The Romantic Egoists (1954), Powers of Attorney (1963), and Tales of Manhattan (1967), each of which presents stories linked by narration, characters, or theme in such a way as to resemble a novel. An accomplished critic, Auchincloss published studies of a wide range of writers, from

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