Narcissa & Other Fables
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1983.
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9780547970462

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Louis Auchincloss., & Louis Auchincloss|AUTHOR. (1983). Narcissa & Other Fables . Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

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Louis Auchincloss and Louis Auchincloss|AUTHOR. 1983. Narcissa & Other Fables. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

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Louis Auchincloss and Louis Auchincloss|AUTHOR. Narcissa & Other Fables Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1983.

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Louis Auchincloss, and Louis Auchincloss|AUTHOR. Narcissa & Other Fables Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1983.

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In the title story, a wealthy muralist, and patroness of the arts succumbs to the near compulsion of posing in the nude for a fellow artist who then blackmails her. In other tales, a clergyman conceives of adultery as a valid means of sharing Christian charity; a socially prominent family conspires to entrap a girl into a "front" marriage with their homosexual son and heir; an art student writes his thesis on some startling theories as to why a famed painter of elegant interiors never includes a human figure in his pictures; a federal judge sells his opinions to the highest bidder with a recklessness that seems, almost suicidally, to invite detection.

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