Author: Booth Tarkington
Publisher: The Floating Press
ISBN: 1775453294
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Booth Tarkington's wildly successful novel Seventeen satirizes the vagaries of American adolescence. Though 17-year-old protagonist William Sylvanus Baxter is awkward, tactless, and often less than likable, Tarkington's insightful -- and hilarious -- take on teenage life and love is sure to please readers who appreciate top-notch humor writing.
Seventeen
Author: Booth Tarkington
Publisher: The Floating Press
ISBN: 1775453294
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Booth Tarkington's wildly successful novel Seventeen satirizes the vagaries of American adolescence. Though 17-year-old protagonist William Sylvanus Baxter is awkward, tactless, and often less than likable, Tarkington's insightful -- and hilarious -- take on teenage life and love is sure to please readers who appreciate top-notch humor writing.
Publisher: The Floating Press
ISBN: 1775453294
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Booth Tarkington's wildly successful novel Seventeen satirizes the vagaries of American adolescence. Though 17-year-old protagonist William Sylvanus Baxter is awkward, tactless, and often less than likable, Tarkington's insightful -- and hilarious -- take on teenage life and love is sure to please readers who appreciate top-notch humor writing.
Penrod
Author: Booth Tarkington
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indiana
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
The story of a boy growing up in Indianapolis at the turn of the century.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indiana
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
The story of a boy growing up in Indianapolis at the turn of the century.
Alice Adams
Author: Booth Tarkington
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indiana
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indiana
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
Kate Fennigate
Author: Booth Tarkington
Publisher: Garden City : Doubleday, Doran & Company
ISBN:
Category : Autographs
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
"Career of a managerial woman." Cf. Hanna, A. Mirror for the nation
Publisher: Garden City : Doubleday, Doran & Company
ISBN:
Category : Autographs
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
"Career of a managerial woman." Cf. Hanna, A. Mirror for the nation
Penrod and Sam
Author: Booth Tarkington
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boys
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boys
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
The Magnificent Ambersons
Author: Booth Tarkington
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 1528791681
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
The second installment in Booth Tarkington's “Growth Series", “The Magnificent Ambersons” is a 1918 novel that won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1919. The story continues exploring the rapid development of the Unites States through the eyes of the Ambersons, a declining aristocratic family living in Indianapolis during the final days of the Civil War. “The Magnificent Ambersons” offers the reader a fantastic glimpse of a unique part of American history and is not to be missed by fans and collectors of Tarkington's seminal work. Newton Booth Tarkington (1869–1946) was an American dramatist and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist. Among only three other novelists to have won the Pulitzer Prize more than once, Tarkington was one of the greatest authors of the 1910s and 1920s who helped usher in Indiana's Golden Age of literature. Other notable works by this author include: “Monsieur Beaucaire” (1900), “Penrod” (1914), and “The Turmoil” (1915). Read & Co. Classics is republishing this novel now in a new edition complete with a biography of the author from “Encyclopædia Britannica” (1922).
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 1528791681
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
The second installment in Booth Tarkington's “Growth Series", “The Magnificent Ambersons” is a 1918 novel that won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1919. The story continues exploring the rapid development of the Unites States through the eyes of the Ambersons, a declining aristocratic family living in Indianapolis during the final days of the Civil War. “The Magnificent Ambersons” offers the reader a fantastic glimpse of a unique part of American history and is not to be missed by fans and collectors of Tarkington's seminal work. Newton Booth Tarkington (1869–1946) was an American dramatist and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist. Among only three other novelists to have won the Pulitzer Prize more than once, Tarkington was one of the greatest authors of the 1910s and 1920s who helped usher in Indiana's Golden Age of literature. Other notable works by this author include: “Monsieur Beaucaire” (1900), “Penrod” (1914), and “The Turmoil” (1915). Read & Co. Classics is republishing this novel now in a new edition complete with a biography of the author from “Encyclopædia Britannica” (1922).
The Gentleman from Indiana
Author: Booth Tarkington
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 338733107X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 413
Book Description
Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 338733107X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 413
Book Description
Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
American Fiction, 1901-1925
Author: Geoffrey D. Smith
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521434690
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1064
Book Description
A 1997 bibliography of American fiction from 1901-1925.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521434690
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1064
Book Description
A 1997 bibliography of American fiction from 1901-1925.
Rural Fictions, Urban Realities
Author: Mark Storey
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199893187
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
This study of late 19th-century American literature uses the period's rural fiction to reveal the increasingly intricate and sometimes problematic connections between urban and rural life.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199893187
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
This study of late 19th-century American literature uses the period's rural fiction to reveal the increasingly intricate and sometimes problematic connections between urban and rural life.
The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin
Author: Beatrix Potter
Publisher: Seven Books
ISBN: 3689954622
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
This is a Tale about a tail—a tail that belonged to a little red squirrel, and his name was Nutkin. He had a brother called Twinkleberry, and a great many cousins: they lived in a wood at the edge of a lake.
Publisher: Seven Books
ISBN: 3689954622
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
This is a Tale about a tail—a tail that belonged to a little red squirrel, and his name was Nutkin. He had a brother called Twinkleberry, and a great many cousins: they lived in a wood at the edge of a lake.