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Dec 15, 2015 seventeen paperback december 15, 2015 by booth tarkington author. Booth tarkington, wrote novels about life in the middle west, beginning with the gentleman from indiana 1899 and including two pulitzer prize winners. Seventeenbooth tarkingtonfree downloadpdf epubfreeditorial. Seventeenyearold willie develops a crush on lola pratt, a babytalking. Though 17yearold protagonist william sylvanus baxter is awkward, tactless, and often less than likable, tarkingtons insightfuland hilarioustake on teenage life and love is sure to please readers who appreciate topnotch humor writing. Funny and compassionate the immortal story of a smalltown summer and a young mans first love, seventeen is a warm and enduring portrait of americas family lifeone of booth tarkington s bestloved books. Feb 22, 2006 free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by project gutenberg. In 1925 the novel was first adapted for film under the title pampered youth. You may copy it, give it away or reuse it under the terms of the project gutenberg license included with this ebook or online at. This little book by tarkington explores the humor in a first romantic experience of a seventeenyearold boys life. Tarkington accomplished the feat with alice adams and the magnificent ambersons, dramas that explored the lives of fictional characters who live in a setting similar to the one tarkington experienced in indianapolis.
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It was the second novel in his growth trilogy, which included the turmoil 1915 and the midlander 1923, retitled national avenue in 1927. Born in indianapolis, tarkington travelled throughout europe and north america, and eventually built an estate, seawood, in kennebunkport, maine, where he and his second wife, susannah robinson, lived from may. Download booth tarkington s seventeen for your kindle, tablet, ipad, pc or mobile. While he had great commercial and critical success with serious and mature novels garnering two pulitzer prizes in the process, he was also well known.
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