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Booth Tarkington : novels & stories / Booth Tarkington ; Thomas Mallon, editor.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tarkington, Booth, 1869-1946, author.
- Series:
- Library of America ; 319.
- Library of America ; 319
- Standardized Title:
- Works. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mothers and sons--Fiction.
- Mothers and sons.
- Inheritance and succession--Fiction.
- Inheritance and succession.
- Children of the rich--Fiction.
- Children of the rich.
- Loss (Psychology)--Fiction.
- Loss (Psychology).
- Social change--Fiction.
- Social change.
- Young women--Fiction.
- Young women.
- Social classes--Fiction.
- Social classes.
- Middle class families--Fiction.
- Middle class families.
- Indiana--Fiction.
- Indiana.
- United States--Social life and customs--Fiction.
- United States.
- Manners and customs.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- 669 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
- Other Title:
- Novels & stories
- Novels and stories
- Tarkington : novels & stories
- Place of Publication:
- New York, N.Y. : The Library of America, [2019]
- Summary:
- "Here are three indispensable works from the Pulitzer Prize-winning laureate of the American heartland, including the novels that inspired a classic film by Orson Welles and an Oscar-nominated performance by Katharine Hepburn. The Magnificent Ambersons depicts the fall from grace of George Minafer, scion of the once-unassailable Amberson family whose wealth and grandeur are in precipitous decline. Alice Adams, perhaps Booth Tarkington's greatest work, offers a psychologically nuanced portrait of a self-aware young woman whose social prospects are rapidly diminishing. Tarkington's gifts as a story writer are displayed in the collection In the Arena: Stories of Political Life, published not long after he served as an Indiana state representative and drawing from his firsthand encounter with the rough-and-tumble of real-world politics. With original illustrations from the first editions, helpful annotation, and a newly researched chronology of Tarkington's life and career."--Dust jacket.
- Contents:
- The magnificent Ambersons
- Alice Adams
- In the arena: stories of political life
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contains:
- Tarkington, Booth, 1869-1946. Magnificent Ambersons.
- Tarkington, Booth, 1869-1946. Alice Adams.
- Tarkington, Booth, 1869-1946. In the arena.
- ISBN:
- 9781598536201
- 1598536206
- OCLC:
- 1091644284
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