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In the Arena

Booth Tarkington

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .Toby, you voik hart, und safe your money?"

"You help?" he whispered.

"I help—you!" she cried loudly. Then, with a sudden fit of sobbing, she flung open the gate and ran at the top of her speed into the house.

Halcyon the days for Pietro Tobigli, extravagant the jocularity of this betrothed one. And, as his happiness, so did his prosperity increase; the little chestnut furnace became the smallest adjunct of his affairs; for he leaped (almost at one bound) to the proprietorship of a wooden stand, shaped like the crate of an upright piano and backed up against the brick wall of the restaurant—a mercantile house which was closed at night by putting the lid on. All day long Toby's smile arrested pedestrians, and compelled them to buy of him, making his wares sweeter in the mouth. Bertha dwelt in a perpetual serenade: on warm days, when the restaurant doors were open, she could hear him singing, not always "Ogostine,". . . Read More

Community Reviews

"In The Arena: Stories of Political Life" was originally published in 1905. It is a collection of short stories by Booth Tarkington all of which have something to do with politics. The book is divided into two parts. Part I consists of four short stories, and Part II has two short stories. All these

This collection of short stories is a short book from early in Booth Tarkington's writing career, when he was less verbose than he became in some later works. These stories are of special interest because Tarkington tapped into his own brief career in politics for material; his experiences seem to h