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Booth Tarkington

The Beautiful Lady

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Nothing could have been more painful to my sensiti-veness than to occupy myself, confused with blushes, at the center of the whole world as a living advertise-ment of the least amusing ballet in Paris. To be the day's sensation of the boulevards one must possess an eccentricity of appearance conceived by nothing short of genius; and my misfortunes had reduced me to present such to all eyes seeking mirth. It was not that I was one of those people in uniform who carry placards and strange figures upon their backs, nor that my coat was of rags; on the contrary, my whole costume was delicately rich and well chosen, of soft grey and fine li… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: 1stworld Library (Hrsg.)
  • ISBN: 978-1-4218-0306-7
  • EAN: 9781421803067
  • Produktnummer: 2274247
  • Verlag: 1st World Library - Literary Society
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
  • Seitenangabe: 108 S.
  • Masse: H22.2 cm x B14.5 cm x D0.9 cm 292 g
  • Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken mit Schutzumschlag
  • Gewicht: 292

Über den Autor


Newton Booth Tarkington (1869 - 1946) was an American novelist and dramatist best known for his Pulitzer Prize winning novels The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams, which also became a film by Orson Welles. He is one of only three novelists to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once, along with William Faulkner and John Updike. Tarkington chronicled Midwestern American life and the changes wrought by the economic boom times following the Civil War and up to World War I.

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