The gentleman from Indiana / Booth Tarkington.
Booth Tarkington's first novel, The Gentleman From Indiana, lays out a number of the recurring themes that would reappear in many of the author's later works, including a Midwestern setting and a highly moral protagonist who battles against forces of evil which are often symptomatic of dee...
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| Language: | English |
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[Auckland] :
The Floating Press,
[2012]
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Table of Contents:
- The young man who came to stay
- The strange lady
- Lonesomeness
- The walrus and the carpenter
- At the pasture bars : elder-bushes may have stings
- June
- Morning : "some in rags and some in tags and some in velvet gowns"
- Glad afternoon : the girl by the blue tent-pole
- Night : it is bad luck to sing before breakfast
- The court-house bell
- John Brown's body
- Jerry the teller
- James Fisbee
- A rescue
- Nettles
- Pretty marquise
- Helen's toast
- The treachery of H. Fisbee
- The great Harkness comes home.