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Booth Tarkington

Booth Tarkington: Novels & Stories (LOA #319)

The Magnificent Ambersons / Alice Adams / In the Arena: Stories of Political Life

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Thomas Mallon and Library of America invite readers to rediscover the Pulitzer Prize-winning novels of a classic American writer on the 150th anniversary of his birthMuch in need of rediscovery today, Booth Tarkington was among the most beloved and widely read writers of his era. In such classic novels as The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams, both winners of the Pulitzer Prize, Tarkington displayed a mastery of realism and an astute, strikingly modern feel for psychology, capturing crucial transformations in our national life as they were manifested in changing social customs and in the very landscape itself, altered irrevocably by indus… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Mallon, Thomas / Brown, Arthur William
  • ISBN: 978-1-59853-620-1
  • EAN: 9781598536201
  • Produktnummer: 28670444
  • Verlag: Random House N.Y.
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
  • Seitenangabe: 669 S.
  • Masse: H20.9 cm x B13.7 cm x D3.8 cm 597 g
  • Reihenbandnummer: 319
  • Gewicht: 597

Über den Autor


Booth Tarkington (1869-1946), a native of Indianapolis, Indiana, published the first of his many novels, The Gentleman from Indiana, in 1899. He served a single term in Indiana's House of Representatives in 1902-1903. His long and commercially successful literary career was divided between the writing of fiction and plays. Two of his novels, The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams, were awarded the Pulitzer Prize. His Penrod books for young adults were widely popular in their time.Thomas Mallon, editor, is the author of nine novels, including Watergate, Finale, and Fellow Travelers, and seven books of nonfiction. He is a regular contributor to The New Yorker and The New York Times Book Review.

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