Complete anthologies of booth tarkington, the

An American novelist and dramatist best known for his novels The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams. He is, with William Faulkner and John Updike, one of only three novelists to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once. This collection includes an active table of contents for easy navigation. Contents The Gibson Upright (1919) Ramsey Milholland (1929) His Own People (1912) The Man from Home (1908) Harlequin and Columbine (1921) In the Arena: Stories of Political Life (1905) Monsieur Beaucaire (1900) The Guest of Quesnay (1908) The Beautiful Lady (1910) The Conquest of Canaan (1905) Beasley's Christmas Party (1909) The Flirt (1913) Gentle Julia (1918) The Gentleman from Indiana (1922) The Two Vanrevels (1899) The Turmoil (1915) Alice Adams (1921) Seventeen (1917) Penrod (1914) Penrod and Sam (1916) The Magnificent Ambersons (1918) Ramsey Milholland (1929) Another of this author's engaging studies ofthe American boy -- in this case, of the boy of 1917, who marched away to the world war. His Own People (1912) The story of an American swindler in Europe, and his American victims. The Man from Home (1908) The scene takes place in Italy, and the American humor shows up brilliantly against the foreign background. Monsieur Beaucaire (1900) This is a name which has come to mean something. Like the name of every good book it has acquired a personality. It signifies chivalry, love, beauty, purity, grace; it signifies too the fire and the dash of an historical romance combined with the delicacy of a subtle and charming story of manners. The Conquest of Canaan (1905) Intolerance and narrow-mindedness hold full sway among the inhabitants of Canaan, Indiana, making the advance of Joe Louden from adverse circumstances to leading citizen all the more remarkable. The Flirt (1913) The "Flirt," the younger of two sisters, breaks one girl's engagement, drives one man to suicide, causes the murder of another, leads another to lose his fortune, and in the end marries a stupid and unpromising suitor, leaving the really worthy one to marry her sister. Gentle Julia (1918) Julia is twenty, "the prettiest girl in town," and too kind and gentle to turn anyone down. Each of her lovers lives in the fool's paradise of his own rose-colored imaginaton. A gay and joyous book. The Gentleman from Indiana (1922) The tale of a young university graduate who becomes a newspaper owner and editor in a Western town, and wages war against "graft" and corruption. His crusade brings him into relations with the girl who had captured his heart at college, and their love story is subtly interwoven with his political campaign. It is one of the best of modern American novels, and readers will delight not only in the stirring drama of the plot, but in the fresh and sympathetic pictures given of the young townships of the West. The Two Vanrevels (1899) A love story of Indiana, laid in the time of the Mexican War. No setting for a book of Mr. Tarkington's could be more auspicious. It is a story of Indiana by the author of The Gentleman from Indiana, and a romance of our forefathers times by the author of Monsieur Beaucaire. It is as stirring and wholesome as the former, and as deft in execution, as witty, as true to the aspect and spirit of the life it re-creates as the latter. The author is more fertile in invention than ever before, and the charm of his style is enhanced by the picture of the happy life of those old days--the days that lay between the passing of the Indian and the coming of the railroads. The Turmoil (1915) Bibbs Sheridan is a dreamy, imaginative youth, who revolts against his father's plans for him to be a servitor of big business. The love of a fine girl turns Bibb's life from failure to success. Alice Adams (1921) Alice Adams is the story of a family who could not quite keep up with the wealthy families in town -- but did everything in their power to appear that they could. Seventeen (1917) No one but the creator of Penrod could have portrayed the immortal young people of this story. Its humor is irresistible and reminiscent of the time when the reader was Seventeen. Penrod (1914) This is a picture of a boy's heart, full of the lovable, humorous, tragic things which are locked secrets to most older folks. It is a finished, exquisite work. Penrod and Sam (1916) Like "Penrod" and "Seventeen," this book contains some remarkable phases of real boyhood and some of the best stories of juvenile prankishness that have ever been written. The Magnificent Ambersons (1918) Pulitzer Prize winner - 1919.