"From the attic of Lyntons, a dilapidated English country mansion, Frances Jellico sees them--Cara first: dark and beautiful, then Peter: striking and serious. The couple is spending the summer of 1969 in the rooms below hers while Frances is researching the architecture in the surrounding gardens. But she's distracted. Beneath a floorboard in her bathroom, she finds a peephole that gives her access to her neighbors' private lives." --

"Vowing to make his yearlong escapade across Europe his last hurrah before taking over the family estate, Henry 'Monty' Montague and his best friend Percy find themselves in the middle of a dangerous manhunt involving pirates and highwaymen." --

With Three Lives, Louis Auchincloss turns in another commanding performance as our most entertaining and intelligent chronicler of monied society, a world as morally complex as it is privileged. In "The Epicurean," Nat Chisolm is a relentless seeker of pleasure, a man whose financial ease and energetic pursuit of enjoyable diversions only make him more aware of his emotional bankruptcy. Alida Vermeule is "The Realist," an ambitious woman who engineers...

"As the twentieth century ends, David, collecting women as conquests and discarding them, meets the unstable and irresistable Lucy and learns the power and peril of intimacy."--Amazon.com viewed August 26, 2020

The story of Henry Moss, a homosexual everyman whose life knows none of the limitations or abuses his predecessors experienced.