7 best short stories by Booth Tarkington

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Welcome to the 7 Best Short Stories book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors.
 
 This edition is dedicated to the american author Booth Tarkington. Tarkington 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 America's greatest living author.
 
 Works selected for this book:
 The Fascinating Stranger; 
 The Party;
 The OneHundredDollar Bill;
 Jeannette;
 The Spring Concert; 
 Willamilla; 
 The Only Child.
 
 If you appreciate good literature, be sure to check out the other Tacet Books titles!

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Booth Tarkington (July 29, 1869 May 19, 1946) was an American novelist and dramatist best known for his novels The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams. 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 America's greatest living author.[1] Several of his stories were adapted to film. During the first quarter of the 20th century, Tarkington, along with Meredith Nicholson, George Ade, and James Whitcomb Riley helped to create a Golden Age of literature in Indiana.

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