Booth Tarkington

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...

A melodramatic folksy Christmas story, a little like Dickens – with a Tiny Tim, but also with some romance. Tarkington's writings are very much set in his early 1900s American culture. We are meant to sympathize with the crippled child but not even notice the slights of the black servants. Still, Tarkington promotes kindness and uses a milder style of humor than many authors of his day. Newton Booth Tarkington was an American novelist and dramatist...

Penrod Schofield ia an 11-year-old middle-class boy in a small city in the Midwestern United States. Penrod and his friends decide to start their own detective agency with hilarious results! A children’s book involving a boy detective who “solves” various mysteries and more than often gets himself into trouble as a result.

First published in 1923, "The Fascinating Stranger and Other Stories" is a fantastic collection of classic short stories by American dramatist and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Newton Booth Tarkington (1869—1946). Among only three other novelists to have won the Pulitzer Prize more than once, Tarkington was one of the greatest authors of the 1910s and 1920s who helped usher in Indiana's Golden Age of literature. His books saw numerous reprintings...

This one act play follows Louis Valny-Cherault the Marquis, his sister Anne de Laseyne, and Eloise D'Anville. They are on a dangerous journey to escape France during the revolution. But faking documents and such becomes the least of their worries as Valsin, the Commissioner of the National Committee of Public Safety tries to trap them

"Short Stories of Various Types" by Selma Lagerlöf, Arthur Conan Doyle, Alphonse Daudet, Booth Tarkington, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews, Nathaniel Hawthorne, O. Henry, Myra Kelly, Hamlin Garland, James Matthew Barrie, Francis Bret Harte, Katherine Mayo. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or...