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This early novel by Tarkington (1903) tells the story of two men vying for the attentions of the same woman, Sylvia.  Mr. Sudgeberry, the narrator, is a loquacious pedant.   William Fentriss is a happy-go-lucky ne'er-do-well.  Comic sparks are struck as the two men seek to undermine each other in Sylvia's eyes.

A young newspaperman who has just moved to a new town overhears the wealthy politician in the house next door talking aloud to nonexistent figures. Has David Beasley gone mad, or is his imagination simply greater than his friends and ex-fiancée believe?

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. There is a midland city in the heart of fair, open country, a dirty and wonderful city nesting dingily in the fog of its own smoke. The stranger must feel the dirt before he feels the wonder, for the dirt will...

Little Patriot, Good Citizen, Friend of Mankin

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Talbot Potter, star of the 1921 backstage-comedy title story, demands endless rewrites of Stewart Camby’s new masterpiece for the stage. Potter believes that surely, tweaking the script will lead Wanda, the play’s lovely ingénue, to fall for him in real life. Soon Camby finds himself smitten with Wanda as well...

This 1919 stage collaboration between Tarkington and Wilson identifies some fallacies of socialism. Andrew Gibson, owner of a piano company that manufactures the "Gibson Upright," is threatened by a strike. When Gibson cedes ownership of the company, the workers learn that it is not so easy to manage a business.

Tarkington’s second novel (1900), set in 18th-century England, spawned two movies, a play, and an operetta. Beaucaire, barber to the French Ambassador, blackmails his way into high society and the interest of Lady Mary Carlisle, and is soon over his head in a whirlwind of duels, highwaymen, card-cheats, masquerades, and intrigue.

Many people who are traveling abroad take the opportunity to forge a new, albeit temporary, identity for themselves. In his quest to be welcomed among the upper crust in Europe, American Robert Russ Mellin creates a moneyed, cultured alter ego. However, before long, Mellin happens to encounter a man...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by CLASSIC COLLECTION 600.*** Synopsis: A Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Alice Adams chronicles the attempts of a lower middle class American midwestern family at the turn of the 20th century to climb the social ladder. The eponymous...

In this southern Italian comedy of errors, American siblings Horace and Ethel Granger-Simpson attempt to have Ethel marry the Honorable Almeric St. Aubyn. The siblings must deal with their guardian—Daniel Voorhees Pike of Kokomo, Indiana—who refuses to liquidate the family fortune for the marriage....

This one act play follows Louis Valny-Cherault the Marquis, his sister Anne de Laseyne, and Eloise D’Anville. They are on a dangerous journey to escape France during the revolution. But faking documents and such becomes the least of their worries as Valsin, the Commissioner of the National Committee of Public Safety tries to trap them