| Gentle Julia by Booth Tarkington, Fiction, Literary, Political Contributor(s): Tarkington, Booth (Author) |
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ISBN: 1606649361 ISBN-13: 9781606649367 Publisher: Aegypan OUR PRICE: $23.36 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 2008 * Not available - Not in print at this time *Annotation: Oh, the responsibilities of a lady who is almost officially the prettiest person in a town, thinks Julia. The burdens are often heavier than the world suspects -- and there are moments she finds the position so trying she would resign, if she could. Worse was the pestering of her family! Julia was a warm-hearted, appreciative girl, naturally unable to close her eyes to sterling merit wherever it appeared . . . and it was not without warrant that she complained of her relatives. The whole family, including the children, regaled themselves with her private affairs as a substitute for theater-going! Two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Booth Tarkington (1869-1946) wrote with understanding and humor of American middle-class life -- especially the travails and triumphs of the youth of this country. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Political |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.56" H x 6" W x 9" (0.89 lbs) 180 pages |
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Contributor Bio(s): Tarkington, Booth: - "Newton Booth Tarkington (1869 - 1946) was an American novelist and dramatist best known for his Pulitzer Prize winning novels The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams, which also became a film by Orson Welles. He is one of only three novelists to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once, along with William Faulkner and John Updike. Tarkington chronicled Midwestern American life and the changes wrought by the economic boom times following the Civil War and up to World War I." |