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Monsieur Beaucaire
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Set in 18th-century Bath, this short romance follows a Frenchman posing as a barber, whose concealed noble identity shapes his pursuit of an aristocratic English lady. It suits readers who enjoy historical romance and classic short fiction.
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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