Booth Tarkington (Gutenberg Index)

This is not a novel but a reader's roadmap to one of America's most prolific and decorated early 20th-century authors. Booth Tarkington, who won the Pulitzer Prize twice (for 'The Magnificent Ambersons' and 'Alice Adams'), produced a vast body of work spanning novels, plays, and short stories that chronicled the shifting tides of American life. This index catalogs his complete Project Gutenberg collection, making it the essential starting point for anyone wanting to explore his portraits of Midwestern suburbia, the rise and fall of aristocratic families, and the tender comedy of growing up. Tarkington wrote with a satirical yet warm eye toward the pretensions of the wealthy and the quiet dignity of the striving classes. His characters linger in memory: the doomed Ambersons, the plucky social climber Alice Adams, the boys of 'Penrod' who became icons of American childhood. For readers seeking to mine this rich vein of American literature, this index is the key that unlocks dozens of volumes.