Booth Tarkington
Penrod
Read by Jonathan Burchard
Booth Tarkington
Join Penrod Schofield and his wistful dog Duke, in a hilarious romp through turn of the century Indianapolis, chronicling his life, loves, a…
Penrod and Sam
Read by Jonathan Burchard
Booth Tarkington
Follow more of the hilarious life of the boy Penrod Schofield, his friends Sam Williams, Herman, Verman, Georgie, Maurice, and the love of h…
The Magnificent Ambersons (Growth Trilogy Vol 2)
Read by Mark F. Smith
Booth Tarkington
In a world where a gentleman’s life is defined more “by being, rather than by doing,” a family’s reputation can be compromised if it is not …
Gentle Julia
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Booth Tarkington
Penrod for girls in the form of Florence, the bratty younger cousin of luminous Julia Atwater, enlivens this romantic comedy set in Tarkingt…
Alice Adams
Read by Jeannie
Booth Tarkington
A Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Alice Adams chronicles the attempts of a lower middle class American midwestern family at the turn of the 20…
Seventeen
Read by Jonathan Burchard
Booth Tarkington
Seventeen: A Tale of Youth and Summer Time and the Baxter Family, Especially William is a humorous novel by Booth Tarkington that gently sat…
The Magnificent Ambersons (Growth Trilogy Vol 2) Version 2
Read by Jeannie
Booth Tarkington
The Magnificent Ambersons is a 1918 novel by Booth Tarkington which won the 1919 Pulitzer Prize. It was the second novel in the Growth trilo…
The Flirt
Read by Lee Smalley
Booth Tarkington
Laura and Cora Madison and their younger brother Hedrick live with their parents in a Midwestern American town that is fairly bursting with …
The Turmoil (Growth Trilogy Vol 1)
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Booth Tarkington
The Turmoil is the first novel in the 'Growth' trilogy, which also includes The Magnificent Ambersons (1918) and The Midlander (1923, retitl…
Monsieur Beaucaire
Read by Thomas A. Copeland
Booth Tarkington
A madcap Frenchman posing as an ambassador's barber blackmails a dishonest duke to introduce him as a nobleman to a wealthy belle of Bath. S…
Beasley's Christmas Party
Read by Arnold
Booth Tarkington
A melodramatic folksy Christmas story, a little like Dickens - with a Tiny Tim, but also with some romance. Tarkington's writings are very m…
The Conquest of Canaan
Read by Bob R
Booth Tarkington
Small town middle America in early 1900's---Ne'er-do-well Joe Louden loves daughter of wealthy judge, from afar---leaves town, goes to law s…
Best Dog Stories
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Booth Tarkington
A collection of adult stories - sad, humorous, and adventurous - about Man's Best Friend. NOTE: Some of these selections contain violence an…
The Beautiful Lady
Read by Rita Boutros
Booth Tarkington
Raffaele Ansolini is down on his luck: living in Paris is not quite so amazing if there are no funds to finance the amusement. So Ansolini h…
The Intimate Strangers
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Booth Tarkington
"Beginning with the girl of yesterday and a lawyer of uncertain age, stranded in a railway station, half starved and uncertain of the f…
The Guest of Quesnay
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This is the story of two young American painters residing in Paris in a moderate way. Others are more flamboyant than them, for example Larr…
The Midlander
Read by Zach Hoyt
Booth Tarkington
The Midlander was published in 1923 as the third novel in Booth Tarkington’s “Growth” trilogy that also includes The Turmoil and The Magnifi…