Автор: Tarkington Booth Название: The Gentleman From Indiana ISBN: 1096069172 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781096069171 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 12390.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Booth Tarkington's first novel, The Gentleman From Indiana, lays out a number of the recurring themes that would reappear in many of the author's later works, including a Midwestern setting and a highly moral protagonist who battles against forces of evil which are often symptomatic of deeper problems in the United States. In this story, the upright John Harkness returns to his hometown after law school, only to find himself locked in conflict with a group of racist crusaders.
Автор: Tarkington Booth Название: His Own People ISBN: 1082554332 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781082554339 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 12070.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Many people who are traveling abroad take the opportunity to forge a new, albeit temporary, identity for themselves. In his quest to be welcomed among the upper crust in Europe, American Robert Russ Mellin creates a moneyed, cultured alter ego. However, before long, Mellin happens to encounter a man who is the embodiment of everything that he himself aspires to be. Will he survive this collision of the real and the imaginary?
Автор: Tarkington Booth Название: The Conquest of Canaan ISBN: 1082710792 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781082710797 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 16090.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: What does it mean to be popular? Is it a mark of good character, or merely a sign that you're well-regarded among an influential group of elites? The hero in Booth Tarkington's tale The Conquest of Canaan has achieved a strange kind of popularity-he's seen as a prince among those who are down on their luck, but to the upper classes and the powerful, he might as well be invisible. Will Joe Loudon be able to channel his limited influence to make some much-needed changes in his community?
Автор: Tarkington Booth Название: The Beautiful Lady ISBN: 1096061074 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781096061076 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 8570.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Is there something about aesthetic beauty that can soothe the soul of even the most troubled individual? That's the question at the center of Booth Tarkington's eminently entertaining short novel The Beautiful Lady. In the story, a down-on-his-luck Italian who is barely scraping by in Paris has his whole life turned upside down by a chance encounter with the enchanting temptress referred to in the book's title.
Автор: Tarkington Newton Booth Название: Gentle Julia: Large Print ISBN: 1731481977 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781731481979 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 14930.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Gentle Juliaby Newton Booth TarkingtonNewton Booth Tarkington was an American novelist and dramatist best known for his novels The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams. He is one of only three novelists to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once, along with William Faulkner and John Updike.
Автор: Tarkington Newton Booth Название: The Beautiful Lady: Large Print ISBN: 1095353586 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781095353585 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 9190.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: I made no repartee, continuing to sit with my chin dependent upon my cravat, but with things not the same in my heart as formerly to the arrival of that grey pongee, the grey glove, and the beautiful voice.Since King Charles the Mad, in Paris no one has been completely free from lunacy while the spring-time is happening. There is something in the sun and the banks of the Seine. The Parisians drink sweet and fruity champagne because the good wines are already in their veins. These Parisians are born intoxicated and remain so; it is not fair play to require them to be like other human people. Their deepest feeling is for the arts; and, as everyone had declared, they are farceurs in their tragedies, tragic in their comedies.
Автор: Tarkington Booth Название: Alice Adams ISBN: 1082506036 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781082506031 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 39070.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Alice Adams is a 1921 novel by Booth Tarkington that received the 1922 Pulitzer Prize for the Novel. It was adapted as a film in 1923 by Rowland V. Lee and more famously in 1935 by George Stevens.
Автор: Tarkington Booth Название: Seventeen ISBN: 1096061023 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781096061021 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 10160.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Booth Tarkington's wildly successful novel Seventeen satirizes the vagaries of American adolescence. Though 17-year-old protagonist William Sylvanus Baxter is awkward, tactless, and often less than likable, Tarkington's insightful-and hilarious-take on teenage life and love is sure to please readers who appreciate top-notch humor writing.
Автор: Tarkington Booth Название: In the Arena ISBN: 1096059932 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781096059936 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 8730.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Newton Booth Tarkington was an American novelist and dramatist best known for his novels The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams. He is one of only three novelists to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once, along with William Faulkner and John Updike.
Автор: Tarkington Booth Название: Harlequin and Columbine ISBN: 109554375X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781095543757 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 8690.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: American novelist Booth Tarkington's life spanned the period 1869-1946, giving him a unique insight into the United States as its culture underwent a number of rapid changes. In the humorous novel Harlequin and Columbine, Tarkington explores the cult of celebrity that began to flower in earnest in the early decades of the twentieth century, using the character of an egotistical actor, Talbot Potter, as the focus of his gentle but hilariously spot-on satire.
Автор: Tarkington Booth Название: The Guest of Quesnay ISBN: 1082713538 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781082713538 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 12990.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: In American author Booth Tarkington's best-known novels and stories, he describes the changing of the cultural guard in the United States as the moneyed aristocracy gave way to the up-and-coming robber barons and titans of industry. In The Guest of Quesnay, Tarkington casts his social scrutiny on a different continent, using the figure of an American painter in Paris as a lens through which to explore relationships between European and American attitudes and ideals.
Автор: Tarkington Booth Название: The Two Vanrevels ISBN: 9353445078 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789353445072 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 13110.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: This book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature. In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have worked towards: 1. Type-setting & Reformatting: The complete work has been re-designed via professional layout, formatting and type-setting tools to re-create the same edition with rich typography, graphics, high quality images, and table elements, giving our readers the feel of holding a 'fresh and newly' reprinted and/or revised edition, as opposed to other scanned & printed (Optical Character Recognition - OCR) reproductions. 2. Correction of imperfections: As the work was re-created from the scratch, therefore, it was vetted to rectify certain conventional norms with regard to typographical mistakes, hyphenations, punctuations, blurred images, missing content/pages, and/or other related subject matters, upon our consideration. Every attempt was made to rectify the imperfections related to omitted constructs in the original edition via other references. However, a few of such imperfections which could not be rectified due to intentional\unintentional omission of content in the original edition, were inherited and preserved from the original work to maintain the authenticity and construct, relevant to the work. We believe that this work holds historical, cultural and/or intellectual importance in the literary works community, therefore despite the oddities, we accounted the work for print as a part of our continuing effort towards preservation of literary work and our contribution towards the development of the society as a whole, driven by our beliefs. We are grateful to our readers for putting their faith in us and accepting our imperfections with regard to preservation of the historical content. HAPPY READING
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