Author of Audiobooks - Booth Tarkington
Alice Adams - Booth Tarkington
Alice Adams - Booth Tarkington
- Author: Booth Tarkington
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
A Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Alice Adams chronicles the attempts of a lower middle class American midwestern family at the turn of the 20th century to climb the social ladder. The eponymous heroine is at the heart of the story, a young woman who...
The Magnificent Ambersons (Growth Trilogy Vol 2) - Booth Tarkington
The Magnificent Ambersons (Growth Trilogy Vol 2) - Booth Tarkington
- Author: Booth Tarkington
- Genre: General Fiction
In a world where a gentlemanβs life is defined more βby being, rather than by doing,β a familyβs reputation can be compromised if it is not guarded carefully, and the sole heir of the Amberson family is proving himself to be a difficult person....
The Beautiful Lady - Booth Tarkington
The Beautiful Lady - Booth Tarkington
- Author: Booth Tarkington
- Genre: General Fiction
Raffaele Ansolini is down on his luck: living in Paris is not quite so amazing if there are no funds to finance the amusement. So Ansolini has taken radical steps to support himself. Shaving off his hair, he uses his bald head as advertising space...
Seventeen - Booth Tarkington
Seventeen - Booth Tarkington
- Author: Booth Tarkington
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
Seventeen: A Tale of Youth and Summer Time and the Baxter Family Especially William is a humorous novel by Booth Tarkington that gently satirizes first love, in the person of a callow 17-year-old, William Sylvanus Baxter. Seventeen takes place in a...
The Turmoil (Growth Trilogy Vol 1) - Booth Tarkington
The Turmoil (Growth Trilogy Vol 1) - Booth Tarkington
- Author: Booth Tarkington
- Genre: General Fiction
The Turmoil is the first novel in the 'Growth' trilogy, which also includes The Magnificent Ambersons (1918) and The Midlander (1923, retitled National Avenue in 1927). In 1942 Orson Welles directed a film version based on volume 2, also titled "The...
The Conquest of Canaan - Booth Tarkington
The Conquest of Canaan - Booth Tarkington
- Author: Booth Tarkington
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
Small town middle America in early 1900's---Ne'er-do-well Joe Louden loves daughter of wealthy judge, from afar---leaves town, goes to law school--returns to scandalize all by defending impossible cases---wins over town. Story of small town mores,...
Penrod - Booth Tarkington
Penrod - Booth Tarkington
- Author: Booth Tarkington
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Animals & Nature
Join Penrod Schofield and his wistful dog Duke, in a hilarious romp through turn of the century Indianapolis, chronicling his life, loves, and mostly the trouble he gets into. (Summary by Jonathan)...
Gentle Julia - Booth Tarkington
Gentle Julia - Booth Tarkington
- Author: Booth Tarkington
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Romance
Penrod for girls in the form of Florence, the bratty younger cousin of luminous Julia Atwater, enlivens this romantic comedy set in Tarkington's Indiana of the early 20th Century. (Summary by BellonaTimes)...
Penrod and Sam - Booth Tarkington
Penrod and Sam - Booth Tarkington
- Author: Booth Tarkington
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Animals & Nature
Follow more of the hilarious life of the boy Penrod Schofield, his friends Sam Williams, Herman, Verman, Georgie, Maurice, and the love of his life, Marjorie Jones. (Summary by Jonathan)...
Monsieur Beaucaire - Booth Tarkington
Monsieur Beaucaire - Booth Tarkington
- Author: Booth Tarkington
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Romance
A madcap Frenchman posing as an ambassador's barber blackmails a dishonest duke to introduce him as a nobleman to a wealthy belle of Bath. Since the duke himself hopes to mend his fortunes by wedding this very woman, he attempts to murder Beaucaire,...
The Flirt - Booth Tarkington
The Flirt - Booth Tarkington
- Author: Booth Tarkington
- Genre: Romance / Published 1900 onward
Laura and Cora Madison and their younger brother Hedrick live with their parents in a Midwestern American town that is fairly bursting with Coraβs discarded and would-be beaus. Her flirtatiousness annoys the tempestuous Hedrick but not the reserved...
The Magnificent Ambersons (Growth Trilogy Vol 2) Version 2 - Booth Tarkington
The Magnificent Ambersons (Growth Trilogy Vol 2) Version 2 - Booth Tarkington
- Author: Booth Tarkington
- Genre: General Fiction
The Magnificent Ambersons is a 1918 novel by Booth Tarkington which won the 1919 Pulitzer Prize. It was the second novel in the Growth trilogy, which included The Turmoil (1915) and The Midlander (1923, retitled National Avenue in 1927). In 1942...
The Guest of Quesnay - Booth Tarkington
The Guest of Quesnay - Booth Tarkington
- Author: Booth Tarkington
- Genre: General Fiction
This is the story of two young American painters residing in Paris in a moderate way. Others are more flamboyant than them, for example Larrabee Harman, whose life is one continuous scandal, one of which involved the cousin of one of the painters....
The Intimate Strangers - Booth Tarkington
The Intimate Strangers - Booth Tarkington
- Author: Booth Tarkington
- Genre: Comedy
"Beginning with the girl of yesterday and a lawyer of uncertain age, stranded in a railway station, half starved and uncertain of the future, because a hurricane wrecked railway hopes on both the main and branch line, it carries the audience to the...
Beasley's Christmas Party - Booth Tarkington
Beasley's Christmas Party - Booth Tarkington
- Author: Booth Tarkington
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
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...
Best Dog Stories - Booth Tarkington
Best Dog Stories - Booth Tarkington
- Author: Booth Tarkington
- Genre: Anthologies
A collection of adult stories - sad, humorous, and adventurous - about Man's Best Friend. NOTE: Some of these selections contain violence and racial stereotypes that will be objectionable to some listeners. - Summary by TriciaG...