Booth Tarkington
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audioknihaBooth TarkingtonThe Magnificent Ambersons (EN)
Booth Tarkington: “The Magnificent Ambersons” is the 1918 novel by Booth Tarkington which won the 1919 Pulitzer Prize. It is the second novel in “The Growth Trilogy,” which includes “The Turmoil”(1915) and “The Midlander” (1923). In 1942, Orson Welles directed a film ver
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Humor, satira
Seventeen (EN)
Booth Tarkington: “Seventeen: A Tale of Youth and Summer Time and the Baxter Family Especially William” is a 1917 novel about 17-year-old William Sylvanus Baxter. It takes place in the Midwest just before World War I and satirises first love. “Seventeen” was first publis
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Penrod and Sam (EN)
Booth Tarkington: “During the daylight hours of several autumn Saturdays there had been severe outbreaks of cavalry in the Schofield neighbourhood. The sabres were of wood; the steeds were imaginary, and both were employed in a game. ” “Penrod and Sam” (1916) is the seque
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Penrod (EN)
Booth Tarkington: Eleven-year-old Penrod Schofield and his wistful dog Duke go on a hilarious romp through turn of the century Indianapolis. “Penrod” (1914) chronicles his life, loves, and mostly the trouble he gets into. His adventures in pre-World War I Midwest have be
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Klasická literatúra
Alice Adams (EN)
Booth Tarkington: A Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, “Alice Adams” chronicles the attempts of a lower-middle class American, midwestern family, the Adams, to climb the social ladder at the turn of the 20th century. Alice, despite her faults, is generally agreed to be a lovab
