Seventeen by Booth Tarkington, Fiction, Political, Literary, Classics

by Booth Tarkington

Overview

Seventeen: A Tale of Youth and Summer Time and the Baxter Family Especially William is a humorous novel by Booth Tarkington that gently satirizes a boy's first love, in the person of a callow 17-year-old, William Sylvanus Baxter. Seventeen takes place in a small city in the Midwestern United States shortly before World War I.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781603127455
Publisher:	Aegypan
Publication date:	09/01/2007
Pages:	172
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.56(d)

About the Author

Newton Booth Tarkington (1869 - 1946) was an American novelist and dramatist best known for his Pulitzer Prize winning novels The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams, which also became a film by Orson Welles. He is one of only three novelists to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once, along with William Faulkner and John Updike. Tarkington chronicled Midwestern American life and the changes wrought by the economic boom times following the Civil War and up to World War I.