%0 Book %A Tarkington, Booth, 1869-1946, %E Mallon, Thomas, 1951- %E Tarkington, Booth, 1869-1946. %E Tarkington, Booth, 1869-1946. %E Tarkington, Booth, 1869-1946. %I The Library of America %D 2019 %C New York %G English %B Library of America ; %@ 9781598536201 %@ 1598536206 %T Booth Tarkington : novels & stories %X "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.