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Booth Tarkington grew up in Indianapolis, and attended Princeton University. He set much of his fiction in Indiana. Tarkington was one of the more popular novelists of his time, and in 1921 booksellers rated him in a poll as the most significant contemporary American author. -Wikipedia entry for Tarkington
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Classical in form, earnest, cool and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- cooloverwhelming
- gravecomic
- sparerichly built
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- Author
- Booth Tarkington
- First published
- 1915
- Pages
- 184
- Publisher
- 1st World Library - Literary Society, Harper, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Editions
- 145
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781528718714
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