Tarkington: Novels & Stories (LOA #319)

Author: Booth Tarkington

Publisher: Library of America

ISBN: 9781598536201

Binding: hardcover

Section: Fiction

Included works: The Magnificent Ambersons / Alice Adams / In the Arena: Stories of Political Life

Much in need of rediscovery today, Booth Tarkington was among the most beloved and widely read writers of his era. In such classic novels as The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams, both winners of the Pulitzer Prize, Tarkington displayed a mastery of realism and an astute, strikingly modern feel for psychology, capturing crucial transformations in our national life as they were manifested in changing social customs and in the very landscape itself, altered irrevocably by industrialization and environmental degradation.