Portrait in Brownstone Author:Louis Auchincloss The world of the very rich, where money was rated as old or new. A closely knit and exclusive world, where only a few families counted, an inbred world with its own code of manners, its own set of morals, where passionate love and hate, cold betrayal and shocking scandal were masked by the tinkle of tea cups and the murmur of polite conversatio... more »n.
This was the world in which the Denisons were both masters and prisoners, rulers and rebels....« less