Beasleys Christmas Party, Booth Tarkington
Beasleys Christmas Party, Booth Tarkington
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Beasley's Christmas Party

Author: Booth Tarkington

Narrator: Eden Giuliano And The Icon Christmas Elves

Unabridged: 1 hr 53 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/04/2020

Synopsis

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 to the black servants. Still, Tarkington promotes kindness and uses a milder style of humor than many authors of his day.

Produced by Devin Lawerence

Edited by Macc Kay

Production executive Avalon Giuliano

Music By AudioNautix With Their Kind Permission

©2020 Eden Garret Giuliano (P) Eden Garret Giuliano

About Booth Tarkington

Booth Tarkington (1869-1946) was an American novelist and dramatist best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning novels The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams. He is one of only three novelists to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once. Much of Tarkington's work consists of satirical and closely observed studies of the American class system and its foibles. He himself came from a patrician family that lost much of its wealth after the Panic of 1873.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Sterlingcindysu

A short Christmas story--as the description says, even down to having a Tiny Tim! It's available for free for the Kindle from Amazon. The only question I had was, why would Beasley want to run for political office? It just gets you peeping toms outside your windows!......more

Goodreads review by Bev

Beasley's Christmas Party (1909) by Booth Tarkington is a sweet tale of the Midwest. It opens by introducing us to a young man who has recently come to Wainwright to work on the Wainwright Morning Despatch as a cub reporter. He has high hopes of interviewing Mr. David Beasley, a well-known and well-......more

Goodreads review by Thomas

‘It was Christmas Eve and I had not known it. I leaned back in my chair in sudden loneliness. What pictures coming before me of long ago Christmas Eve’s at home. Old Christmas Eve’s where there was a tree.’ In the 1910’s and ‘20s, Booth Tarkington was considered the greatest contemporary American......more

Goodreads review by Randee

When I read stories that were written a long time ago, I am often struck by their innocence. Or perhaps more to the point, the innocent times of yesteryear. There is something charming about people then that doesn't seem to exist today. This story is very sweet in the best possible sense of the word......more

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