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…

Short Story Collection Vol. 052

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LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 052: a collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members.

The Magnificent Ambersons (Growth Trilogy Vol 2)

Read by Mark F. Smith


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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

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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…

Short Story Collection Vol. 044

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LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 044: a collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members.

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 …

Lords of the Housetops: Thirteen Cat Tales

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The Lords of the Housetops reveals the cat through the creative lenses of 13 authors. Consequently, this carefully chosen collection of stor…

Short Story Collection Vol. 040

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LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 040: a collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members.

The Turmoil (Growth Trilogy Vol 1)

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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


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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…

1916: First Chapters Collection

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These are first chapters to books first published in 1916. Readers, following is a tentative list culled from Wikipedia's article on the yea…

Beasley's Christmas Party

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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

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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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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

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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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"Beginning with the girl of yesterday and a lawyer of uncertain age, stranded in a railway station, half starved and uncertain of the f…

Coffee Break Collection 036 - Cats

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This is the 36th Coffee Break Collection, in which Librivox readers select and read stories or poems, fiction or non-fiction pieces of fifte…

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…

One-Act Play Collection 015

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Here, in our 15th collection, are 10 One Act Plays for your enjoyment. They range from the mid-1600s to the early 1900s, from outright farce…

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…

First Chapter Collection 010

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The first chapter of a book is often the hook to draw a reader in. It could make you eager for more or realize it isn't for you. Here we off…