Author: Booth Tarkington
Narrator: Jennifer King
Unabridged: 5 hr 36 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Smith Show Media Group
Published: 02/20/2012
Categories: Children's Fiction, Classic Children's Stories
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.
I am a fan of two-time Pulitzer Prize winning playwright and author Booth Tarkington. The sequence beginning with The Magnificent Andersons is a brilliant view of a transition period in America. A much younger me enjoyed his Penrod stories, preferring them to Tom Sawyer, even if I was too young to r......more
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