The Rector of Justin
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780395073612 (0395073618)
Publish date: January 1st 1964
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Academic,
School,
Literature,
American,
Education,
Modern,
New York,
School Stories,
Boarding School
I was reading Auchincloss's obit in the NYT recently and I realized that I hadn't read any of his books. Many critics consider this his most ambitious novel. I must say I enjoyed it. It was dense and intellectual and it sent me to the dictionary many times for such words as athwart, encomium and epi...