page_title: Louis Kronenberger
section_title: Works
hierarchical_section_title: Louis Kronenberger / Works
caption_attribution_description: Cropped detail from John Glynn, John Wilkes and John Horne Tooke, given to the National Portrait Gallery, London in 1922. See source website for additional information.
context_page_description: Louis Kronenberger was an American literary critic, novelist, and biographer who wrote extensively on drama and the 18th century.
context_section_description: In his later years, Kronenberger wrote biographies, including one of John Wilkes and another of Oscar Wilde.
  Books:
  The Grand Manner (1929)
  Kings and Desperate Men: Life in Eighteenth-Century England (1942)
  Grand Right and Left (1952)
  The Thread of Laughter: Chapters on English Stage Comedy from Jonson to Maugham (1952)
  Company Manners: A Cultural Inquiry into American Life  (1954)
  Republic of Letters: Essays on Various Writers (1955)
  Marlborough's Duchess: A Study in Worldliness (1958)
  Madame De Lafayette: The Story of a Patriot's Wife (1959)
  A Month of Sundays (1961)
  The Viking Book of Aphorisms (1962)
  Great World: Portraits and Scenes from Greville's Memoirs, 1814-1860 (1963)
  The Cart and the Horse (1964)
  The Polished Surface: Essays in the Literature of Worldliness (1969)
  The Cutting Edge: A Collection of Witty Insults and Wicked Retorts, of Polished Snubs and Homicidal Repartee  (1970)
  No Whippings, No Gold Watches (1970) memoirs
  A Mania for Magnificence (1972)
  Animal, Vegetable, Mineral (1972)
  The Last Word: Portraits of Fourteen Master Aphorists  (1972)
  Extraordinary Mr. Wilkes: His Life and Times (1974)
  Oscar Wilde (1976)
  Editing:
  An Anthology of Light Verse (1935)
  An Eighteenth Century Miscellany (1936)
  Reader's Companion (1945) editor
  The Pleasure of Their Company: An Anthology of Civilized Writing (1946)
  The Indispensable Johnson and Boswell (1950)
  Alexander Pope: Selected Works (1951)
  Cavalcade of Comedy (1953)
  George Bernard Shaw : A Critical Survey (1953) * The Portable Johnson and Boswell (1955)
  The Maxims of La Rochefoucauld (1959)
  Novelists on Novelists (1962) editor
  Quality: Its Image in the Arts (1969)
  Brief Lives: a Biographical Companion to the Arts (1971)
  Books edited with others:
  The Faber Book of Aphorisms (1964) with W. H. Auden
  Plays written:
  The Heavenly Twins (1955)
  Plays translated, adapted:
  Mademoiselle Colombe by Jean Anouilh (New York: Coward-McCann, 1954) translated and adapted from the original Colombe (1951)
  Plays edited:
  Best Plays series (1952-1961):
  The Best Plays of 1952-1953, Burns Mantle Yearbook (1953)
  The Best Plays of 1953-1954 (1954)
  The Best Plays of 1954-1955 (1955)
  The Best Plays of 1955-1956 (1956)
  The Best Plays of 1956-1957 (1957)
  The Best Plays of 1957-1958 (1958)
  The Best Plays of 1958-1959 (1959)
  The Best Plays of 1959-1960 (1960)
  The Best Plays of 1960-1961 (1961)
  Four Plays by Bernard Shaw (1953)
  Richard Brinsley Sheridan: Six Plays (1964)
  Plays edited with others:
  The Beggar's Opera by John Gay, A Faithful Reproduction of the 1729 Edition (1961) with Max Goberman
  Ibsen (1977) with Harold Clurman
caption: John Wilkes by Richard Houston (1769), about whom Kronenberger wrote in 1974
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