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The Gentleman from Indiana

Booth Tarkington

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .Comedy," he answered, "except your part of it, which you shouldn't have done. It was not arranged in honor of 'visiting ladies.' But you mustn't think me a comedian. Truly, I didn't plan it. My friend from Six-Cross-Roads must be given the credit of devising the scene-though you divined it!"

"It was a little too picturesque, I think. I know about Six-Cross-Roads. Please tell me what you mean to do."

"Nothing. What should I?"

"You mean that you will keep on letting them shoot at you, until they—until you—" She struck the bench angrily with her hand.

"There's no summer theatre in Six-Cross-Roads; there's not even a church. Why shouldn't they?" he asked gravely. "During the long and tedious evenings it cheers the poor Cross-Reader's soul to drop over here and take a shot at me. It whiles away dull care for him, and he has the additional exercise of running all the way home."

"Ah!" she cried indignantly, "the. . . Read More

Community Reviews

I love Booth Tarkington's "Penrod"....I have read some of his other books and enjoyed, but not loved, them. I think that the humor of Penrod is what "kicks it up a notch". Despite the fact that it is dated (and "politically incorrect") it is still so very fun. I can't say the same for "The Gentleman

Booth Tarkington (July 29, 1869 - May 19, 1946) was born in Indianapolis and he went back to the Hoosier state repeatedly as a setting for his novels. His first novel was “The Gentleman from Indiana”, which was originally published in 1899. Tarkington also went to Princeton to study, so it isn’t sur

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I liked this book, but I had hoped to like it more. It was my first Booth Tarkington novel and his too, so that leaves a lot of upside potential as I read more of his books and enjoy seeing him develop as an author.

I liked John Harkless, the crusading journalist hero, aide

Considering this was written about a century ago, it's interesting how little attitudes have changed. We may have evolved industrially, technologically, even philosophically, but not according to attitude and how we relate one to another. As Tarkington notes "The present depends largely upon the pas

Booth Tarkington's first published novel is kind of "all-over-the-place," and is far more melodramatic than the author's later works. I found it to be generally entertaining, sometimes enthrallingly so, though one fairly long stretch towards the end bordered on the routine. What I especially liked a

Many may consider The Gentleman from Indiana, Booth Tarkington's debut novel published in 1899, to be sentimental drivel, but I believe that we forget the time and place from which Mr. Tarkington was writing. As we continue to seek for more excitement and thrills from our writers, and we want our in

Booth Tarkington's first novel. Written in 1899, it tells the story of an ambitious journalist who takes on the editorship of an small-town newspaper in Indiana. While he sees his life as a failure, the townspeople see him has someone who has provided jobs for people and saved them from the vigilant

Readers may not know that the subject matter of Tarkington's first novel is "Whitecapping". This form of vigilante violence began in Indiana in the years before this novel. Whitecapping was a kind of late-century version of the KKK, although it involved as much economic as racial or ethnic causes. N

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