The Classic Collection of Booth Tarkington. Pulitzer Prize 1919, 1922 : Alice Adams, The Magnificent Ambersons, Penrod and others, livre ebook

Newton Booth Tarkington was an American novelist and dramatist best known for his novels The Magnificent Ambersons (1918) and Alice Adams (1921). 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 the 1910s and 1920s he was considered the United States' greatest living author. Several of his stories were adapted to film.

During the first quarter of the 20th century, Tarkington, along with Meredith Nicholson, George Ade, and James Whitcomb Riley helped to create a Golden Age of literature in Indiana.

Contents:
Penrod
Penrod
Penrod and Sam
Growth
The Turmoil
The Magnificent Ambersons
The Midlander
Novels
The Gentleman from Indiana
Monsieur Beaucaire
The Two Vanrevels
The Beautiful Lady
The Conquest of Canaan
The Guest of Quesnay
His Own People
Beasley's Christmas Party
The Flirt
Seventeen
Ramsey Milholland
Alice Adams
Gentle Julia