Booth Tarkington
Author
Series
The works of Booth Tarkington volume 28
Language
English
Description
Smoothly written and closely observed, the second of Booth Tarkington’s semi-autobiographical accounts, The World Does move gives weight and specificity to what otherwise seems a cliche. The World Does Move concerns Tarkington’s life from around 1900 (he characterizes the beginning only as the fin de siècle) to 1928, though he is at pains to make it known that the book is not a species of ‘autobiographical writing—for this is not a personal...