Booth Tarkington
Author
Series
Library of America volume 319
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Description
669 pages : illustration ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
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,...
5) Gentle Julia
Author
Language
English
Description
"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."--LibriVox.
10) Penrod and Sam
Author
Pub. Date
1916.
Physical Description
ix, 356 pages : frontispiece, plates ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Another collection of tales about Penrod Schofield and his playmate Sam. Together, the two of them get into more trouble than Dennis the Menace and the Little Rascals combined.
16) Penrod Jashber
Author
Pub. Date
1929.
Physical Description
x pages, 1 leaf, 321 pages including frontispiece, illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
