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The Magnificent Ambersons
Booth Tarkington

The Book League of America, 1940

22 reviews
Booth Tarkington

BiblioLife, 2008

Tom Sawyer Meets Monty Python
Penrod Schofield has enough good intentions to pave a Super Highway straight to Hell, but his ways and works are encompassed all about with temptations too powerful to ignore. The hapless Penrod is one of the funniest characters American literature produced, and it's a damn shame that he has been allowed to languish for so long in darkness. It is unfortunate, but America has been muzzled by ...

Alice Adams

12 reviews
Booth Tarkington

Classic Books Library, 2007

"Ambition has no rest."
One of the great novels about failed ambition in an attempt to rise above the ordinary. Alice Adams is a dreamer who wants the things her struggling middle-class existence can't provide her, especially college and high-ranking prospects in the romance department. When the wealthy Arthur Russell comes within her sights, she fabricates a web of lies to impress him; but when he attends a family ...

Penrod and Sam

5 reviews
Booth Tarkington

BiblioLife, 2008

excellent book
This is a fine story about young boys growing up. There is a great deal of humor in it, much that is common to little boys. I think that is what makes a book like this so funny. I can relate to it. However, the electronic version needs to be proofread to remove the countless spelling and punctuation errors. It is a shame that nowadays with all the tools available that editing of this kind is ...

ALICE ADAMS - KINDLE EDITION [ENG]

Classics-Unbound, 2008

Alice Adams is a Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Booth Tarkington which was also adapted into a 1935 comedy/drama film. The narrative centers around the character of a young woman who aspires to climb the social ladder. The story is set in a middle-class family living in America at the turn of the 20th century. Source: Wikipedia.org

The Magnificent Ambersons (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (Barnes & Noble Classics)

44 reviews
Booth Tarkington

Barnes & Noble Classics, 2005

Better than Marquand
Assuming you have read the synopsis and a few other reviews, I thought a comparative review might serve as a change of pace. I purchased this book some time ago after The Atlantic ran a few reviews for early 20th century `transformation' novels slowly reclaiming their place in American Literature. Included in that list were The Late George Apley, H.M. Pullham Esquire (both by John P. Marquand), ...

Seventeen

18 reviews
Booth Tarkington

BiblioBazaar, 2006

A charming novel by a Great American Writer
Alas, Tarkington is probably doomed to become a literary footnote. And that's a very sad thing. His characters are memorable, and his writing is charming, witty, fun, and speaks directly to the heart. But his easy use of words like "darky" and the "n-word" almost guarantees that only the most committed readers ever hear of him and seek him out. And that's too bad. Because he's one of the Great ...

THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS
BOOTH TARKINGTON

Doubleday, Page and Company, 1918

1918 first hardcover edition of Tarkington's classic.

Penrod Jashber

2 reviews
Booth Tarkington

Wildside Press, 2008

funny stuff
I read this book, along with Penrod, and Penrod and Sam, to my two younger brothers, ages 13 and 11. They loved all of them! they thought these books were hilarious, and they still talk about them every once in awhile. There are a lot of big words, and the way Tarkington says stuff is old-fashioned, but that makes it all the more interesting, and at times, all the more funny.

My Cousin Mark Twain
Cyril Clemens

Rodale Press, 1939

Stated First Edition. Black and white illustrations.

Presenting Lily Mars. [First Edition]
Booth Tarkington

Garden City NY: Doubleday., 1933

Classic romance. Black book with crisp clean gilt scripture lettering on cover. Boards are illustrated in black and white and pale green

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