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Seventeen: A Tale of Youth and Summer Time and the Baxter Family Especially William

By Booth Tarkington

2019-01-17 08:41:26

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 s ... Read more
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 small city in the Midwestern United States shortly before World War I. It was published as sketches in the Metropolitan Magazine in 1914, and collected in a single volume in 1916 when it was the bestselling novel in the United States. Less

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File size176.95 KB
Print pages86
PublisherPublic Domain Books
Publication date2015-08-08
LanguageEnglish
ISBN978-1330978382
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Booth Tarkington
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Newton Booth Tarkington (July 29, 1869 – May 19, 1946) was an American novelist and dramatist best known for his novels The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams. He is one of only three novelists t...

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