The Education of Oscar Fairfax by Louis Auchincloss

The Education of Oscar Fairfax



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The Education of Oscar Fairfax Louis Auchincloss
Page: 225
ISBN: 9780547756332
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

In this wise and masterly novel, Louis Auchincloss gives us a man who takes the measure of himself - and his times - with the art and insight of a new Henry Adams. Linking three generations of a Wall Street law firm, The Education of Oscar Fairfax provides a revealing portrait of the American upper classes throughout our century. The story opens in 1908, as St. Luke's Cathedral rises stone by stone on lower Broadway and young Oscar learns a lesson in compromise at the knee of its bishop, his grandfather. His schooling continues at St. Augustine's, where he sees a schoolmaster's high ideals exposed as fantasy, and at Yale, where Oscar's literary ambitions are tempered by a brilliant but ruthless classmate who proves that MORE EBOOKS:
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