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Novels & Stories The Magnificent Ambersons, Alice Adams, In the Arena Stories of Political Life: novel

✍ Scribed by Booth Tarkington

Book ID: 100258238
Publisher: Library of America
Year: 2019
Tongue: en-US
Weight: 508 KB
Category: Fiction
ISBN: 1598536214

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✦ Synopsis

Thomas Mallon and Library of America invite readers to rediscover the Pulitzer Prize-winning novels of a classic American writer on the 150th anniversary of his birth
Much in need of rediscovery today, Booth Tarkington was among the most beloved and widely read writers of his era. In such classic novels as The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams , both winners of the Pulitzer Prize, Tarkington displayed a mastery of realism and an astute, strikingly modern feel for psychology, capturing crucial transformations in our national life as they were manifested in changing social customs and in the very landscape itself, altered irrevocably by industrialization and environmental degradation. Out of Tarkington's prolific writings novelist and critic Thomas Mallon has selected three works that show Tarkington at his best. The Magnificent Ambersons , inspiration for Orsen Welles's classic film, is a tour de force study in egoism, depicting the fall from grace...

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