| Seventeen Contributor(s): Tarkington, Booth (Author) |
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ISBN: 055430905X ISBN-13: 9780554309057 Publisher: BiblioLife OUR PRICE: $30.35 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 2008 * Not available - Not in print at this time *Annotation: Booth Tarkington was an American novelist and dramatist from Indiana best known for his Pulitzer Prize winning novels "Alice Adams" and "The Magnificent Ambersons," which also be came a film by Orson Welles. Tarkington chronicled Midwestern American life, and the changes wrought by the economic boom times followoing the Civil War and up to World War I. One of the themes that Tarkington treated was boyhood and adolescence, beginning with "Penrod" in 1914, and continuing in "Penrod and Sam" and "Penrod Jashber," "Seventeen" is another story of boyhood of boyhood, coupled with romance. William Baxter is infatuated with baby-talking Lola Pratt. First love with all of its glories and pratfalls, called "one of the superb comedies of adolescence" by Tarkington's biographer, James Woodruff. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Political - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.01 lbs) 200 pages |
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| Publisher Description: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. |