The Book Class

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Thorndike Press, 1984 - Fiction - 293 pages
The book class was started by twelve manhattan debutantes in 1908. Over an elegant lunch they would meet to discuss a selected title, a custom they upheld monthly for over sixty years. They were intelligent and diverse women, wives and daughters of wealthy and powerful men, who themselves ran New York society. Without betraying their proper upbringing and perfect manners, their lives unfold, revealing intimate moments of turmoil far greater than anything they ever read about. --Book jacket.

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Section 1
7
Section 2
24
Section 3
35
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About the author (1984)

Louis Auchincloss was born on September 27, 1917 in New York. He attended Groton College and Yale University and received a law degree from the University of Virginia. He served in the U.S. Navy for four years during World War ll. A practicing attorney, Auchincloss wrote his first novel, "The Indifferent Children," in 1947 under the pseudonym Andrew Lee, establishing a dual career as a successful lawyer and writer. Born into a socially prominent family, Auchincloss generally writes about society's upper class. Strong family connections, well-bred manners, and corporate boardrooms are subject matter in such novels as "Portrait in Brownstone" and "I Come As a Thief." He has also written several biographical and critical works on such notable writers as Edith Wharton and Henry James. Auchincloss was President of the Museum of the City of New York.

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