The Guest of Quesnay

by Booth Tarkington

Overview

In American author Booth Tarkington's best-known novels and stories, he describes the changing of the cultural guard in the United States as the moneyed aristocracy gave way to the up-and-coming robber barons and titans of industry. In The Guest of Quesnay, Tarkington casts his social scrutiny on a different continent, using the figure of an American painter in Paris as a lens through which to explore relationships between European and American attitudes and ideals.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781775561484
Publisher:	The Floating Press
Publication date:	10/01/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	371 KB

About the Author

Newton Booth Tarkington was an American novelist and dramatist best known for his novels The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams