Essential Novelists - Booth Tarkington
Essential Novelists - Booth Tarkington

Author: Booth Tarkington

Publisher: Tacet Books

Published: 2020-09-01

Total Pages: 705

ISBN-13: 3969690722

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Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the two most important and meaningful novels of Booth Tarkington which are The Magnificent Ambersons and The Turmoil. He is one of only four novelists to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once, along with William Faulkner, John Updike, and Colson Whitehead. In the 1910s and 1920s he was considered America's greatest living author. Several of his stories were adapted to film. During the first quarter of the 20th century, Tarkington, along with Meredith Nicholson, George Ade, and James Whitcomb Riley helped to create a Golden Age of literature in Indiana.Booth Tarkington was an American novelist and dramatist.Novels selected for this book: The Magnificent Ambersons.The Turmoil.This is one of many books in the series Essential Novelists. If you liked this book, look for the other titles in the series, we are sure you will like some of the authors.

The Turmoil
The Turmoil

Author: Booth Tarkington

Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com

Published: 1914

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 1442914416

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The Gentleman from Indiana
The Gentleman from Indiana

Author: Booth Tarkington

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2024-04-18

Total Pages: 413

ISBN-13: 338733107X

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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.

Penrod
Penrod

Author: Booth Tarkington

Publisher:

Published: 1914

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13:

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A saga of the American boy.

Seventeen
Seventeen

Author: Booth Tarkington

Publisher: The Floating Press

Published: 2011-06-01

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 1775453294

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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
Penrod

Author: Booth Tarkington

Publisher:

Published: 1914

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13:

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The story of a boy growing up in Indianapolis at the turn of the century.

The Guest of Quesnay
The Guest of Quesnay

Author: Booth Tarkington

Publisher: The Floating Press

Published: 2012-10-01

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1775561488

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In American author Booth Tarkington's best-known novels and stories, he describes the changing of the cultural guard in the United States as the moneyed aristocracy gave way to the up-and-coming robber barons and titans of industry. In The Guest of Quesnay, Tarkington casts his social scrutiny on a different continent, using the figure of an American painter in Paris as a lens through which to explore relationships between European and American attitudes and ideals.

The Magnificent Ambersons
The Magnificent Ambersons

Author: Booth Tarkington

Publisher: Read Books Ltd

Published: 2020-12-07

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13: 1528791681

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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).