Booth Tarkington's wildly successful novel Seventeen satirizes the vagaries of American adolescence. Though 17-year-old protagonist William Sylvanus Baxter is awkward, tactless, and often less than likable, Tarkington's insightful -- and hilarious --...
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Booth Tarkington's wildly successful novel Seventeen satirizes the vagaries of American adolescence. Though 17-year-old protagonist William Sylvanus Baxter is awkward, tactless, and often less than likable, Tarkington's insightful -- and hilarious -- take on teenage life and love is sure to please readers who appreciate top-notch humor writing
SEVENTEEN; Contents; I - William; II - The Unknown; III - The Painful Age; IV - Genesis and Clematis; V - Sorrows Within a Boiler; VI - Truculence; VII - Mr. Baxter's Evening Clothes; VIII - Jane; IX - Little Sisters Have Big Ears; X - Mr. Parcher and Love; XI - Beginning a True Friendship; XII - Progress of the Symptoms; XIII - At Home to His Friends; XIV - Time Does Fly; XV - Romance of Statistics; XVI - The Shower; XVII - Jane's Theory; XVIII - The Big, Fat Lummox; XIX - "I Dunno Why it Is"; XX - Sydney Carton; XXI - My Little Sweethearts; XXII - Foreshadowings; XXIII - Fathers Forget
XXIV - Clothes Make the ManXXV - Youth and Mr. Parcher; XXVI - Miss Boke; XXVII - Marooned; XXVIII - Rannie Kirsted; XXIX - "Don't Forget!"; XXX - The Bride-To-Be;
