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  • Bibliography:
    32 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1918
  • Latest Book:
    May 2011
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Book List in Order: 32 titles



    • / General Fiction
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    Another classic converted by eBooksLib.com. MAJOR AMBERSON had made a fortune in 1878, when other people were losing fortunes, and the magnificence of the Ambersons began then. Magnificence, like the size of a fortune, is always comparative, as even...



  • Booth Tarkington was a Pulitzer Prize winning American author best known for writing historical novels such as The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams.  Many of Tarkington’s books are set in fictional towns in the Midwest near the turn of th...



  • The basis for George Stevens’s major motion picture starring Katharine Hepburn in her Oscar-nominated leading role.

    In a small Midwestern town in the wake of World War I, Alice Adams delightedly finds herself being pursued by Arthur Russ...



  • Booth Tarkington was a Pulitzer Prize winning American author best known for writing historical novels such as The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams.  Many of Tarkington’s books are set in fictional towns in the Midwest near the turn of th...



  • Booth Tarkington was a Pulitzer Prize winning American author best known for writing historical novels such as The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams.  Many of Tarkington’s books are set in fictional towns in the Midwest near the turn of th...



  • Chios Classics brings literature's greatest works back to life for new generations.  All our books contain a linked table of contents. Penrod and Sam is the sequel novel to Penrod.The action follows the adventures of Penrod and his best friend S...



  • Alongside William Faulkner and John Updike, Booth Tarkington is one of just three authors to win the Pulitzer Prize more than once. Tarkington accomplished the feat with Alice Adams and The Magnificent Ambersons, dramas that explored the lives of fic...



  • Alongside William Faulkner and John Updike, Booth Tarkington is one of just three authors to win the Pulitzer Prize more than once. Tarkington accomplished the feat with Alice Adams and The Magnificent Ambersons, dramas that explored the lives of fic...



  • Booth Tarkington was a Pulitzer Prize winning American author best known for writing historical novels such as The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams.  Many of Tarkington’s books are set in fictional towns in the Midwest near the turn of th...






  • Booth Tarkington was a Pulitzer Prize winning American author best known for writing historical novels such as The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams.  Many of Tarkington’s books are set in fictional towns in the Midwest near the turn of th...



  • Penrod, Booth Tarkington's classic and hilarious tale of one 11-year-old boy's unceasing series of misadventures in an early Twentieth Century Midwestern town, has fallen into disrepute in some quarters for ethnic descriptions and dialogue that many ...






  • Penrod’s Busy Day is just one of a number of comic sketches taken from the book, Penrod, written by Booth Tarkington in 1914. Each of the sketches illustrates an incident supposedly from the life of Penrod Schofield, an 11-year-old boy living...



    • / General Fiction
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    Booth Tarkington was a Pulitzer Prize winning American author best known for writing historical novels such as The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams.  Many of Tarkington’s books are set in fictional towns in the Midwest near the turn of th...



    • / General Fiction
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    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available a...



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    This early novel by Tarkington (1903) tells the story of two men vying for the attentions of the same woman, Sylvia.  Mr. Sudgeberry, the narrator, is a loquacious pedant.   William Fentriss is a happy-go-lucky ne'er-do-well.  Com...



    • / General Fiction
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    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available a...



    • / General Fiction
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    Booth Tarkington was a Pulitzer Prize winning American author best known for writing historical novels such as The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams.  Many of Tarkington’s books are set in fictional towns in the Midwest near the turn of th...






    • / General Fiction
    • Buy Buy

    Booth Tarkington was a Pulitzer Prize winning American author best known for writing historical novels such as The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams.  Many of Tarkington’s books are set in fictional towns in the Midwest near the turn of th...



    • / General Fiction
    • Buy Buy

    Alongside William Faulkner and John Updike, Booth Tarkington is one of just three authors to win the Pulitzer Prize more than once. Tarkington accomplished the feat with Alice Adams and The Magnificent Ambersons, dramas that explored the lives of fic...



    • / General Fiction
    • Buy Buy

    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available a...



    • / General Fiction
    • Buy Buy

    Alongside William Faulkner and John Updike, Booth Tarkington is one of just three authors to win the Pulitzer Prize more than once. Tarkington accomplished the feat with Alice Adams and The Magnificent Ambersons, dramas that explored the lives of fic...



    • / Political Thriller
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    Booth Tarkington was a Pulitzer Prize winning American author best known for writing historical novels such as The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams.  Many of Tarkington’s books are set in fictional towns in the Midwest near the turn of th...




    • / General Fiction
    • Buy Buy

    Alongside William Faulkner and John Updike, Booth Tarkington is one of just three authors to win the Pulitzer Prize more than once. Tarkington accomplished the feat with Alice Adams and The Magnificent Ambersons, dramas that explored the lives of fic...



    • / General Fiction
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    Another classic converted by eBooksLib.com.The young Frenchman did very well what he had planned to do. His guess that the Duke would cheat proved good. As the unshod half-dozen figures that had been standing noiselessly in the entryway stole sof...




    • / Literary
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    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available a...






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    This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning...



    • / General Fiction
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    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available a...



    • / General Fiction
    • Buy Buy

    Booth Tarkington was a Pulitzer Prize winning American author best known for writing historical novels such as The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams.  Many of Tarkington’s books are set in fictional towns in the Midwest near the turn of th...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Booth Tarkington has published 32 books.

Booth Tarkington does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Penrod's Busy Day, was published in May 2011.

The first book by Booth Tarkington, The Magnificent Ambersons, was published in January 1918.

No. Booth Tarkington does not write books in series.