: Booth Tarkington
: Alice Adams
: Krill Press
: 9781518336232
: 1
: CHF 1.10
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: Erzählende Literatur
: English
: 339
: DRM
: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet
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Along ide William Faulkner and John Updike, Booth Tarkington is one of just three authors to win the Pulitzer Prize more than once.Tarkington accomplished the feat withAlice Adams and The Magnificent Ambersons,dramas that explored the lives of fictional characters who live in a setting similar to the one Tarkington experienced in Indianapolis. Tarkington continues to garner praise for his works' historical realism.

CHAPTER I


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THE PATIENT, AN OLD-FASHIONED MAN, thought the nurse made a mistake in keeping both of the windows open, and her sprightly disregard of his protests added something to his hatred of her. Every evening he told her that anybody with ordinary gumption ought to realize that night air was bad for the human frame. “The human frame won’t stand everything, Miss Perry,” he warned her, resentfully. “Even a child, if it had just ordinary gumption, ought to know enough not to let the night air blow on sick people yes, nor well people, either! ‘Keep out of th