Seventeen

Seventeen

by Booth Tarkington

Seventeen is a humorous novel that follows the misadventures of William Sylvanus Baxter, a callow 17-year-old boy, as he navigates the complexities of first love, family life, and the social conventions of his small Midwestern town in the years leading up to World War I. Tarkington's witty and affectionate portrayal of adolescence, with its attendant joys and heartbreaks, has made the novel a classic of American literature.

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Booth Tarkington

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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 P...

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