
Seventeen
Seventeen: A Tale of Youth and Summer Time and the Baxter Family, Especially William is a humorous novel by Booth Tarkington, published in 1916 after being serialized in the Metropolitan Magazine in 1914. The story follows 17-year-old William Sylvanus Baxter as he navigates the complexities of first love in a small Midwestern city just before World War I. Notable for its satirical take on adolescence, the novel became a bestseller in the United States upon its release.


























