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Tarkington, Deceased Booth

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ISBN 10 : 1421811154 ISBN 13 : 9781421811154

Editeur : 1st World Library - Literary Society, 2005

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Booth Tarkington (1869-1946), an American novelist and dramatist, was born Newton Booth Tarkington in I ndianapolis, I ndiana. The son of a lawyer, he was educated at Phil Hps Exeter A cademy, Purdue, and Princeton, where he founded the Triangle Club. As a young man he dreamed of being an artist, but soon found he preferred to paint with words. He was encouraged in this desire by his older sister, who took his first novel to New York publisher S. S. Mc Clure; 77ie Gentleman from Indiana was published in 1899. A versatile writer, he would attain fame with a historical romance called Monsieur Beaucaire (1900), before penning a political novel. In the A rena (1905), which was inspired by a term in the Indiana House of Representatives. His first work focusing on middle-class life in small midwestern cities the theme with which he is identified as a writer was TJ ie Conquest of Canaan (1905). A brilliant observer of American life, he drew on his Indiana boyhood to masterfully portray midwestern families in the two Pulitzer Prize-winning works that followed: TI te Magnificent A mhersons (1918), which was filmed by Orson Welles in 1941, and A lice A dams (1921). But his best-known works are arguably the Penrod books, which have become young peoples classics and have been compared with Mark Twain s Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. During his prolific career, Tarkington wrote more than forty novels and several plays, which include Clarence, Tlie Man from Home, and Cameo Kirby.
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Biographie de l'auteur

Booth Tarkington ( 1869 - 1946) was an American novelist and dramatist best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning novels The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams. Tarkington was a world traveller who spent much of his later life in Kennebunkport, Maine, and left his papers to Colby College. At the same time, he was also an unabashed Midwestern regionalist, and set much of his fiction in his native Indiana. One of the more popular American novelists of his time, his The Two Vanrevels and Mary's Neck appeared on the annual best-seller lists a total of nine times. The Penrod novels depict a typical upper-middle class American boy of 1910 vintage, revealing a fine, bookish sense of American humor. Tarkington dramatized several of his novels; some were eventually filmed. In 1928, he published a book of reminiscences, The World Does Move. He illustrated the books of others, including a 1933 reprint of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, as well as his own. He took a close interest in fine art and collectibles, and was a trustee of the John Herron Art Museum. In 1902, he served in the Indiana House of Representatives, which supplied the experiences for his book In the Arena: Stories of Political Life.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: 1st World Library - Literary Society
• Date d'édition: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1421811154
• ISBN 13: 9781421811154
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 328
• Éditeur: 1st World Library, 1stworld Library