Results for "Tarkington, Booth"

Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize when it was first published in 1918, The Magnificent Ambersons chronicles the changing fortunes of three generations of an American dynasty. The protagonist of Booth Tarkington's great historical...

Embark on a swashbuckling adventure with "Bimbo, the Pirate: A Comedy" by the legendary Booth Tarkington, now back in print after decades This timeless tale, republished by Alpha Editions, invites readers to sail the high seas with Bimbo, a pirate like no other. Filled with humor, wit, and...

Winner of the 1919 Pulitzer Prize, Booth Tarkington's The Magnificent Ambersons is a grand historical drama and social history of the United States that follows the story of the Amberson family's financial decline at the start of the Industrial Age.

Once upon a time in a small-but upscale...

America Moved: Booth Tarkington's Memoirs of Time and Place, 1869-1928 brings together for the first time all of the autobiographical writings of Booth Tarkington, one of the most successful and best-loved writers in American history. These are the memoirs of one of America's greatest literary...

Booth Tarkington's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1921 novel about a young woman's close encounter with her social striving dreams, now republished in a gorgeous new edition.

Alice Adams is young and pretty, but is struggling to improve her station. Her world revolves around dances put on by richer girls...

America Moved: Booth Tarkington's Memoirs of Time and Place, 1869-1928 brings together for the first time all of the autobiographical writings of Booth Tarkington, one of the most successful and best-loved writers in American history. These are the memoirs of one of America's greatest literary...

Newton Booth Tarkington (1869-1946) was an American novelist and dramatist best known for his novels The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams. He is one of only four novelists to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once, along with William Faulkner, John Updike, and Colson Whitehead. In...

Newton Booth Tarkington (1869-1946) was an American novelist and dramatist best known for his novels The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams. He is one of only four novelists to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once, along with William Faulkner, John Updike, and Colson Whitehead. In...