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The Conquest of Canaan

Booth Tarkington

FormatEbook
Published1996
Words82,441
LanguageEnglish
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*The Conquest of Canaan* is a novel by Booth Tarkington set in a small Midwestern town, following a disgraced young man who leaves and later returns to establish himself as a lawyer. Readers interested in early twentieth-century American fiction and Tarkington's regional social portraiture will find it worthwhile. *Note: the 1996 date is a reprint; Tarkington first published this work in 1905.*
Booth Tarkington

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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