The Gentleman from Indiana (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

by Booth Tarkington

Overview

Tarkington's first novel, published in 1899, features a crusading young editor, John Harkless, who comes to the small Indiana town of Plattsville to edit the dying local paper only to find corruption by a band of local thugs . . . and romance with a woman who exceeds all expectations.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781411436282
Publisher:	Union Square & Co.
Publication date:	02/08/2011
Series:	Barnes & Noble Digital Library
Sold by:	Hachette Digital, Inc.
Format:	eBook
Pages:	394
File size:	329 KB
Age Range:	3 Months to 18 Years

About the Author

Booth Tarkington (1869-1946) was an American novelist best known for his depictions of life in small Midwestern cities. A lover of the theater, he dramatized several of his own books. Today, he is most noted as the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Magnificent Ambersons and for the novel Alice Adams, about the frustrated ambitions of a lower middle class young woman.