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Gentle Julia
Booth Tarkington
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Penrod for girls in the form of Florence, the bratty younger cousin of luminous Julia Atwater, enlivens this romantic comedy set in Tarkington's Indiana of the early 20th Century.
Penrod for girls in the form of Florence, the bratty younger cousin of luminous Julia Atwater, enlivens this romantic comedy set in Tarkington's Indiana of the early 20th Century.
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Community Reviews
A typical Booth Tarkington book which takes us back into a different time where lifes expectations were at a different level.
I enjoyed this book right up to the ending, which was rather silly and kind of a let-down. I enjoyed the old-fashioned nature of the book and the hijinks Florence and Herbert got up to, as well as Julia's indecisiveness. It's fun to read a clean book-although it had some rather un pc parts due to it
It was all right. It didn't end the way I thought it would, and I thought the title was misleading. But nonetheless, I love books from this period, and I love Booth Tarkington.
Lighthearted easy read.
Humorous story with insights to the culture of the 1920s era.
James Thurber, I read, advised his daughter to read this book. I don't know how old she was then. Liking Thurber and Tarkington, I tracked it down. The library's edition was published in 1920 or so, still going strong. Tarkington was a talented writer, immensely popular in his heyday but now largely
Booth Tarkington must have been a very versatile writer. Not only did he win two of the first four Pulitzer Prizes ever awarded, but he did so with two very different novels -- The Magnificent Ambersons (the second book of his Growth Trilogy, about the effect of industrialization in the American Mid
I don't read a lot of American humour, but this book was hilarious. Florence behaves a little young for a 13-year-old, but she's an unforgettable character - an imaginative blunderbuss of a little girl who takes a sudden shine to her pretty Aunt Julia's most hapless, helpless suitor (named, of you c
engaging and humorous tale in the tradition of Mark Twain.
Excluding bad cooks and the dangerously insane, the persons most disturbing to the serenity of households are young lovers.
Julia Atwater is the belle of her town, with dozens of smitten suitors haunting her front porch and showering her with candy, pet animals and poems of their own manufacture.