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The Embezzler is the last of the four novels which constitute Louis Auchincloss’s major writings of the 1960s. The decade had witnessed a rapid rise of his star as a writer of fiction, and had brought him commercial success. In his four novels of 1960–7 he had astutely engaged some of the philosophical, psychologial and moral questions of his time. Moreover, he had done so with an authentic perspective and voice.
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John Brooks, ‘Fiction of the Managerial Class’, New York Times Book Review, 8 Apr 1984, p. 36.
Auchincloss, A World of Profit (Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 1968) p. 49.
Cf. James Fenton, ‘High Society’, New Statesman, LXXVII (30 May 1969) 777
Haskel Frankel, ‘Mr. Auchincloss’ Novel Affords No Chance for Cheers’, National Observer, 30 Dec 1968, p. 16
Peter Sourian, ‘A World of Profit’, New York Times Book Review, 24 Nov 1968, p. 5.
Auchincloss, Motiveless Malignity (Boston, Mass. : Houghton Mifflin, 1969) p. vii.
Auchincloss, Reading Henry James (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1975) p. 10.
Auchincloss expressed similar views in ‘Speaking of Books: The Novel as Forum’, New York Times Book Review, 24 Oct 1965, p. 2
‘The Novel of Manners Today: Marquand and O’Hara’, in Auchincloss, Reflections of a Jacobite (Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 1961) p. 140
and in the Introduction to Auchincloss (ed.), Fables of Wit and Elegance (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1972) pp. vii–xiii.
Auchincloss, Edith Wharton: A Woman in her Time (London: Michael Joseph, 1972) p. 126.
Auchincloss, Richelieu (London: Michael Joseph, 1973) pp. 156–7.
Cf. Auchincloss, The Indifferent Children (New York: Prentice-Hall, 1947) p. 135
and The Rector of Justin (Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 1964) p. 194.
Auchincloss, ‘In Search of Innocence — Henry Adams and John La Farge in the South Seas’, in Auchincloss, Life, Law and Letters (Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 1979) p. 131.
Auchincloss, Henry Adams, University of Minnesota Pamphlets on American Writers, no. 93 (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1971) p. 6
Auchincloss, Second Chance: Tales of Two Generations (Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 1970) p. 61.
Auchincloss, inscription on the title page of I Come as a Thief, 1 Aug 1972, Joseph Zeppa Collection.
Auchincloss, I Come as a Thief (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1972) p. 18.
Thomas Lask, ‘Books of the Times — to Damnation and Back’, New York Times, 25 Sep 1972, p. 35.
Cf. Eileen Lottman, ‘Checks, Mates, and a Hollow Knight’, Providence Sunday Journal, 27 Aug 1972, p. H–17
Robert Osterman, ‘“I Come as a Thief” — When Auchincloss Totes up the Bill, Everyone Pays for Moral Defections’, National Observer, 2 Sep 1972, p. 17
Joseph Kanon, Saturday Review, LX (26 Aug 1972) 60–1
Auchincloss, The Partners (Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 1974) p. 1.
So I picked myself’ — Vincent Piket, ‘An Interview with Louis Auchincloss’, Dutch Quarterly Review, XVIII, no. 1 (1988) 25.
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Piket, V. (1991). The Treacherous Years, 1968–75. In: Louis Auchincloss. New Directions in American Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-21366-5_8
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