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    The Trysting Place: “It is the liveliest time in life, the happiest of the irresponsible times in life”
    The Trysting Place: “It is the liveliest time in life, the happiest of the irresponsible times in life”
    The Trysting Place: “It is the liveliest time in life, the happiest of the irresponsible times in life”
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    The Trysting Place: “It is the liveliest time in life, the happiest of the irresponsible times in life”

    By Booth Tarkington

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    Booth Tarkington was born in America’s Mid-West in Indianapolis, Indiana on July 29th, 1869.

    He is one of only three novelists to win the Pulitzer Prize on more than one occasion. When you look through the quality of his work it is easy to understand why. ‘The Magnificent Ambersons’, ‘Alice Adams’, ‘Penrod’ – all classics. The Penrod novels depict a typical upper-middle class American boy of 1910 vintage, revealing a fine, bookish sense of American humor. At one time, his Penrod series was as well-known and as highly regarded as Mark Twain’s ‘Huckleberry Finn’.

    Much of Tarkington's work consists of satirical and closely observed studies of the American class system and its foibles. Coming as he did from a patrician Midwestern family that lost much of its wealth after the Panic of 1873 the foundations for that outlook are clear.

    Today, he is best known for his novel ‘The Magnificent Ambersons’ but almost every book he published is a consummate literary example of his brilliance. Few authors can rival that.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherStage Door
    Release dateSep 1, 2019
    ISBN9781787807501
    The Trysting Place: “It is the liveliest time in life, the happiest of the irresponsible times in life”
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    Booth Tarkington

    Booth Tarkington (1869–1946) was an American novelist and playwright. Tarkington won the Pulitzer Prize in 1919 for the novel The Magnificent Ambersons and again in 1922 for Alice Adams. He is one of only three authors to have been awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once. Though Tarkington was educated at Princeton University, his works are strongly grounded in his native Indiana. 

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      The Trysting Place - Booth Tarkington

      The Trysting Place by Booth Tarkington

      Booth Tarkington was born in America’s Mid-West in Indianapolis, Indiana on July 29th, 1869.

      He is one of only three novelists to win the Pulitzer Prize on more than one occasion. When you look through the quality of his work it is easy to understand why. ‘The Magnificent Ambersons’, ‘Alice Adams’, ‘Penrod’ – all classics. The Penrod novels depict a typical upper-middle class American boy of 1910 vintage, revealing a fine, bookish sense of American humor. At one time, his Penrod series was as well-known and as highly regarded as Mark Twain’s ‘Huckleberry Finn’.

      Much of Tarkington's work consists of satirical and closely observed studies of the American class system and its foibles. Coming as he did from a patrician Midwestern family that lost much of its wealth after the Panic of 1873 the foundations for that outlook are clear.

      Today, he is best known for his novel ‘The Magnificent Ambersons’ but almost every book he published is a consummate literary example of his brilliance.  Few authors can rival that.

      Index of Contents

      THE PEOPLE AS THEY COME INTO THE PLAY

      THE TRYSTING PLACE

      BOOTH TARKINGTON – A SHORT BIOGRAPHY

      BOOTH TARKINGTON – A CONCISE BIBLIOGRAPHY

      THE PEOPLE AS THEY COME INTO THE PLAY

      MRS CURTIS, The Young Woman, twenty-five or perhaps even a little older.

      LANCELOT BRIGGS, The Boy, slim and obviously under twenty.

      MRS BRIGGS, his mother, a handsome woman of forty-five or fifty.

      JESSIE, his sister, a pretty girl of about twenty.

      RUPERT SMITH, The Young Man, about twenty-five.

      MR INGOLDSBY, a man of fifty-five or, possibly, sixty.

      THE MYSTERIOUS VOICE, male and adult.

      THE TRYSTING PLACE

      The scene is a room just off the lounge of a hotel in the country. However, this is not a country hotel; but, on the contrary, one of those vast and elaborate houses of entertainment that affect an expensive simplicity in what is called the colonial manner, and ask to be visited—by those financially able to do so—in the general interest of health and the outdoor life. The wall at the back of the stage is broken only by symmetrically spaced pilasters of an ivory color; each of the side walls is broken in the same manner; but here the pilasters help to frame two rather broad entrances, one at the right and one at the left, and beyond these entrances, on both sides, we have glimpses of the two corridors that lead to them. There are a few old prints—or new prints from old plates—upon the walls; and there are flowering plants on stands in the corners. The furniture consists of some chintz-covered easy-chairs, a light wicker settee with a chintz cushion and a valance that reaches the floor; and there are two wicker tables with a vase of jonquils upon each of them. In the rear right-hand corner of the room, near the stand of plants,

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