Seventeen (Tarkington novel)
First edition | |
| Author | Booth Tarkington |
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| Language | English |
| Publisher | Harper and Brothers |
Publication date | March 1916 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover) |
| Pages | 329 pp (first edition, hardback) |
Seventeen: A Tale of Youth and Summer Time and the Baxter Family Especially William is a humorous novel by Booth Tarkington that gently satirizes first love, in the person of a callow 17-year-old, William Sylvanus Baxter. Seventeen takes place in a small city in the Midwestern United States shortly before World War I. It was published as sketches in the Metropolitan Magazine in 1915 and 1916, and collected in a single volume by Harper and Brothers in 1916, when it was the bestselling novel in the United States.