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A short novel by American author Booth Tarkington in which a naive young American traveling in Europe is taken advantage of by members of fashionable society. It suits readers interested in early twentieth-century American fiction and satires of social climbing.
Booth Tarkington
Newton Booth Tarkington was an American novelist and dramatist best known for his novels The Magnificent Ambersons (1918) and Alice Adams (1921). He is one of only four novelists to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once, along with William Faulkner, John Updike, and Colson Whitehead. In the 1910s and 1920s he was considered the greatest living author in the United States. Several of his stories were adapted to film.
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