Booth Tarkington: 135 books

Talbot Potter, star of the 1921 backstage-comedy title story, demands endless rewrites of Stewart Camby’s new masterpiece for the stage. Potter believes that surely, tweaking the script will lead Wanda, the play’s lovely ingénue, to fall for him in real life. Soon Camby finds himself smitten with Wanda as well...

Many people who are traveling abroad take the opportunity to forge a new, albeit temporary, identity for themselves. In his quest to be welcomed among the upper crust in Europe, American Robert Russ Mellin creates a moneyed, cultured alter ego. However, before long, Mellin happens to encounter a man...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by CLASSIC COLLECTION 600.*** Synopsis: A Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Alice Adams chronicles the attempts of a lower middle class American midwestern family at the turn of the 20th century to climb the social ladder. The eponymous...

In this southern Italian comedy of errors, American siblings Horace and Ethel Granger-Simpson attempt to have Ethel marry the Honorable Almeric St. Aubyn. The siblings must deal with their guardian—Daniel Voorhees Pike of Kokomo, Indiana—who refuses to liquidate the family fortune for the marriage....

This one act play follows Louis Valny-Cherault the Marquis, his sister Anne de Laseyne, and Eloise D’Anville. They are on a dangerous journey to escape France during the revolution. But faking documents and such becomes the least of their worries as Valsin, the Commissioner of the National Committee of Public Safety tries to trap them

This early (1905) short novel is a gentle comedy of errors and manners. Ansolini, a down-and-out artist working in Paris as a carrier of advertising placards, falls for a woman whose face he does not see—but her kindness is unmistakable. His appreciation for her beautiful soul propels him to protect her against a malevolent suitor, without hopes of gaining her love.

This holiday, we proudly presents to you this unique collection of the greatest Christmas classics: most beloved novels, tales, legends, poetry & carols - to warm up your heart and rekindle your holiday sparkle: Works by Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Willa Cather, Beatrix Potter,...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by CLASSIC COLLECTION 600.*** Synopsis: Nothing could have been more painful to my sensiti-veness than to occupy myself, confused with blushes, at the center of the whole world as a living advertise-ment of the least amusing ballet in Paris....

This holiday, we proudly present to you this unique collection of the greatest Christmas stories. Over 250 of them are included by your favourite authors:Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Willa Cather, Beatrix Potter, Louisa May Alcott, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Hans Christian Andersen, E.T.A. Hoffmann, O. Henry, Mark Twain and many more!

Illustrated by Arthur William Brown. A humorous novel which 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 pre-World War I Midwestern United States. It was published as sketches in the Metropolitan Magazine...