Booth Tarkington

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Magnificent Ambersons (Growth Trilogy Vol 2)

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Booth Tarkington - Magnificent Ambersons (Growth Trilogy Vol 2)

In a world where a gentleman’s life is defined more “by being, rather than by doing,” a family’s reputation can be compromised if it is not guarded carefully, and the sole heir of the Amberson family is proving...

Mark F. Smith 11 hours 19 minutes

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Booth Tarkington - Turmoil (Growth Trilogy Vol 1)

The Turmoil is the first novel in the 'Growth' trilogy, which also includes The Magnificent Ambersons (1918) and The Midlander (1923, retitled National Avenue in 1927). In 1942 Orson Welles directed a film...

Kara Shallenberg and 8 more 9 hours 22 minutes

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Magnificent Ambersons (Growth Trilogy Vol 2) Version 2

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Booth Tarkington - Magnificent Ambersons (Growth Trilogy Vol 2) Version 2

The Magnificent Ambersons is a 1918 novel by Booth Tarkington which won the 1919 Pulitzer Prize. It was the second novel in the Growth trilogy, which included The Turmoil (1915) and The Midlander (1923, retitled...

Jeannie 9 hours 19 minutes

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Published 1900 onward

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Booth Tarkington - Conquest of Canaan

Small town middle America in early 1900's---Ne'er-do-well Joe Louden loves daughter of wealthy judge, from afar---leaves town, goes to law school--returns to scandalize all by defending impossible cases---wins over...

Bob R 9 hours 15 minutes

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Booth Tarkington - Gentle Julia

Penrod for girls in the form of Florence, the bratty younger cousin of luminous Julia Atwater, enlivens this romantic comedy set in Tarkington's Indiana of the early 20th Century. (Summary by BellonaTimes)

Bellona Times 8 hours 11 minutes

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Romance

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Booth Tarkington - Flirt

Laura and Cora Madison and their younger brother Hedrick live with their parents in a Midwestern American town that is fairly bursting with Cora’s discarded and would-be beaus. Her flirtatiousness annoys the...

Lee Smalley 8 hours 3 minutes

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Published 1900 onward

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Booth Tarkington - Alice Adams

A Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Alice Adams chronicles the attempts of a lower middle class American midwestern family at the turn of the 20th century to climb the social ladder. The eponymous heroine is at the heart...

Jeannie 7 hours 33 minutes

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General Fiction

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Booth Tarkington - Guest of Quesnay

This is the story of two young American painters residing in Paris in a moderate way. Others are more flamboyant than them, for example Larrabee Harman, whose life is one continuous scandal, one of which involved the...

VfkaBT and 2 more 6 hours 47 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

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Booth Tarkington - Seventeen

Seventeen: A Tale of Youth and Summer Time and the Baxter Family Especially William is a humorous novel by Booth Tarkington that gently satirizes first love, in the person of a callow 17-year-old, William Sylvanus...

Jonathan Burchard 6 hours 39 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

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Booth Tarkington - Penrod and Sam

Follow more of the hilarious life of the boy Penrod Schofield, his friends Sam Williams, Herman, Verman, Georgie, Maurice, and the love of his life, Marjorie Jones. (Summary by Jonathan)

Jonathan Burchard 6 hours 30 minutes

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Booth Tarkington - Penrod

Join Penrod Schofield and his wistful dog Duke, in a hilarious romp through turn of the century Indianapolis, chronicling his life, loves, and mostly the trouble he gets into. (Summary by Jonathan)

Jonathan Burchard 6 hours 3 minutes

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Booth Tarkington - Beautiful Lady

Raffaele Ansolini is down on his luck: living in Paris is not quite so amazing if there are no funds to finance the amusement. So Ansolini has taken radical steps to support himself. Shaving off his hair, he uses his...

Rita Boutros 1 hour 48 minutes

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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