The Guest of Quesnay
| Author | : Booth Tarkington |
| Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
| Total Pages | : 281 |
| Release | : 2023-03-12 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 336834546X |
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The Guest of Quesnay
| Author | : Booth Tarkington |
| Publisher | : Musson Book Company |
| Total Pages | : 368 |
| Release | : 1908 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : |
The Guest of Quesnay
| Author | : Booth Tarkington |
| Publisher | : The Floating Press |
| Total Pages | : 241 |
| Release | : 2012-10-01 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1775561488 |
In American author Booth Tarkington's best-known novels and stories, he describes the changing of the cultural guard in the United States as the moneyed aristocracy gave way to the up-and-coming robber barons and titans of industry. In The Guest of Quesnay, Tarkington casts his social scrutiny on a different continent, using the figure of an American painter in Paris as a lens through which to explore relationships between European and American attitudes and ideals.
The Guest of Quesnay
| Author | : Booth Tarkington |
| Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
| Total Pages | : 182 |
| Release | : 2018-01-29 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 3732626237 |
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Booth Tarkington: Novels & Stories (LOA #319)
| Author | : Booth Tarkington |
| Publisher | : Library of America |
| Total Pages | : 675 |
| Release | : 2019-06-04 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1598536214 |
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 birth Much 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 industrialization and environmental degradation. Out of Tarkington's prolific writings novelist and critic Thomas Mallon has selected three works that show Tarkington at his best. The Magnificent Ambersons, inspiration for Orsen Welles's classic film, is a tour de force study in egoism, depicting the fall from grace of George Minafer, wayward scion of the once-unassailable Amberson family. The titular protagonist of Alice Adams, portrayed unforgettably by Katharine Hepburn in what many consider her finest performance, is one of the great heroines of American literature: like Henry James's Isabel Archer and the young women of Edith Wharton's novels, she is a spirited, complicated young woman contronting the limits of her time and place with her own headlong desires. These novels are joined here by the story collection In the Arena: Tales from Political Life, first published in 1905 and then in an expanded edition in 1920. These stories--which exerted influence on Theodore Roosevelt, inspiring perhaps his most famous speech--draw from Tarkington's political career as a state legislator in Indiana, which lasted briefly but had a profound impact on him. Published to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Tarkington's birth, Novels and Stories contains the most enduring works of a Hoosier luminary and an estimable chronicler of the American Midwest.
An Incompleat Etonian
| Author | : Julia Frankau |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 382 |
| Release | : 1909 |
| Genre | : English fiction |
| ISBN | : |
Main Street Public Library
| Author | : Wayne A. Wiegand |
| Publisher | : University of Iowa Press |
| Total Pages | : 261 |
| Release | : 2011-10-02 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1609380673 |
The author studies four small-town libraries in the Midwest from the late nineteenth century through the federal Library Service Act of 1956, and shows that these institutions served a much different purpose than is often perceived. Rather than acting as neutral institutions that are vital to democracy, these libraries were actually mediating community literary values and providing a public space for the construction of social harmony. The libraries, and the librarians who ran them, were often just as susceptible to the political and social pressures of their time as any other public institution. By analyzing the collections of all four libraries and revealing what was being read and why certain acquisitions were passed over, the atuhor challenges both traditional perceptions and professional rhetoric about the role of libraries in our small-town communities. While the American public library has become essential to its local community, it is for reasons significantly different than those articulated by the "library faith."
Delphi Collected Works of Booth Tarkington US (Illustrated)
| Author | : Booth Tarkington |
| Publisher | : Delphi Classics |
| Total Pages | : 3241 |
| Release | : 2018-12-04 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1788779924 |
Booth Tarkington, a leading American novelist of the Interwar period, was famous for his novels ‘The Magnificent Ambersons’ and ‘Alice Adams’. Although he was considered by many to be America's greatest living author in the 1910’s and 1920’s, being one of only three novelists to win the Pulitzer Prize multiple times, his works are sadly neglected today. This comprehensive eBook presents Tarkington’s collected works, featuring many rare novels for the first time in digital publishing. As well as numerous illustrations and informative introductions, this edition offers readers the opportunity to rediscover this important American novelist. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Tarkington’s life and works * Concise introductions to the major texts * 19 novels, with individual contents tables * Includes the complete Growth trilogy * Rare novels appearing for the first time in digital publishing, including ‘Cherry’ * Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * Famous works such as ‘The Magnificent Ambersons’ and ‘Penrod’ are fully illustrated with their original artwork * Rare story collections available in no other collection * Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the short stories * Easily locate the short stories you want to read * Rare plays – available in no other collection * Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles CONTENTS: The Growth Trilogy The Novels The Gentleman from Indiana Monsieur Beaucaire Cherry The Two Vanrevels The Beautiful Lady The Conquest of Canaan The Guest of Quesnay His Own People The Flirt Penrod The Turmoil Penrod and Sam Seventeen The Magnificent Ambersons Ramsey Milholland Harlequin and Columbine Alice Adams Gentle Julia The Midlander The Shorter Fiction In the Arena Beasley’s Christmas Party The Spring Concert Captain Schlotterwerz The Fascinating Stranger and Other Stories The Short Stories List of Short Stories in Chronological Order List of Short Stories in Alphabetical Order The Plays The Man from Home Beauty and the Jacobin The Gibson Upright The Non-Fiction The Rich Man’s War Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles or to purchase this eBook as a Parts Edition of individual eBooks
