The Classical Fiction Writers: Click
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-A-
- Auchincloss, Louis
- Auchincloss was a practicing lawyer (New York City). He became a successful writer of fiction, including: Tales of Manhattan I Come as a Thief The Partners (1974), and The Winthrop Covenant (1976). He wrote non-fiction too, including: Life, Law and Letters , in which Auchincloss makes reference to Holmes, Cardozo, Jane Austen, Astor, Vanderbilt, Dreiser, Lytton Strachey, Saint-Simon, Thackeray (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1979); and A Writer's Capital (University of Minnesota Press, 1974).
- Austen, Jane
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-B- - Bennett, Arnold
- Blackmore, Richard Doddridge
- "His books are particularly notable for their secondary characters and for descriptions of England's West Country." ( Benet's .) His most notable work: Lorna Doone
- Borrow, George Henry
- Trained as a lawyer, Borrow had a working knowledge of at least twelve languages; he traveled and read widely. Borrow's novels were mostly biographical; his best two works were Lavengro (1851) and its sequel
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