Joe Louden, once a poor outcast in Canaan, Indiana, returns as a lawyer to find much has changed. After dealing with a love triangle involving a judge’s daughter, he decides to defend an innocent man accused of murder, but must defy the town’s vested interests to do so. This 1905 novel features Tarkington’s gimlet-eyed view of small-town life.
About the author
Booth Tarkington (1869-1946) was an American novelist best known for his depictions of life in small Midwestern cities. A lover of the theater, he dramatized several of his own books. Today, he is most noted as the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Magnificent Ambersons and for the novel Alice Adams, about the frustrated ambitions of a lower middle class young woman.
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Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 414 ● ISBN 9781411443105 ● File size 0.4 MB ● Publisher Barnes & Noble ● Published 2011 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 8513638 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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