The style's the man : reflections on Proust, Fitzgerald, Wharton, Vidal, and others / Louis Auchincloss.

The wit of Ivy Compton-Burnett
William Gaddis
The tragic mood in early Jacobean drama
The inner FDR
The Waste land without Pound
Babylon revisited: Gore Vidal's America trilogy
Remembering Marguerite Yourcenar
The two Marcels of Proust
Portrait of the artist as Strether
Pater and Wilde: aestheticism and homosexuality
"My dear blest Percy!": Percy Lubbock and Edith Wharton
Courtship in Congreve
Clarissa revisited
Tennessee Williams: the last Puritan
The Lyttelton-Hart-Davis letters
Henry James: the theatre years
Tamburlaine: existential hero
Three "perfect novels" and what they have in common.