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The guest of Quesnay /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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[Auckland] :
The Floating Press,
[2012]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. |
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| Notas: | Archived by the National Library of New Zealand in PDF (240 pages). Novel. Hypertext links contained in the archived instances of this title are non-functional. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource |
| ISBN: | 9781775561484 1775561488 1776525361 9781776525362 |