Booth Tarkington : novels & stories

"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 Mina...

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Main Author: Tarkington, Booth, 1869-1946 (Author)
Other Authors: Mallon, Thomas, 1951- (Editor), Tarkington, Booth, 1869-1946.
Language:English
Series:Library of America ; 319.
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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.
Physical Description:669 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 662-669).
Published: New York : The Library of America, [2019]
ISBN:9781598536201
1598536206
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