Seventeen (Tarkington, 1916)

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Seventeen (1916)
by Booth Tarkington, illustrated by Arthur William Brown

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A humorous novel which gently satirizes first love, in the person of a callow 17-year-old, William Sylvanus Baxter. Seventeen takes place in a small city in the pre-World War I Midwestern United States. It was published as sketches in the Metropolitan Magazine in 1914, and collected in a single volume in 1916, when it was the bestselling novel in the United States. Seventeen was adapted into films, plays, and even a radio broadcast by Orson Welles

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A view of his trousers caused him to break out in a fresh perspiration.

SEVENTEEN

A TALE OF YOUTH AND
SUMMER TIME AND
THE BAXTER FAMILY
ESPECIALLY WILLIAM

BY
Booth Tarkington

ILLUSTRATED

HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS
NEW YORK AND LONDON

TO
S. K. T.

The longest-living author of this work died in 1946, so this work is in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 78 years or less. This work may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

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