Seventeen
Author: first_name: Booth
last_name: Tarkington
Language: English
Year: 1916

<i>Seventeen: A Tale of Youth and Summer Time and the Baxter Family, Especially William</i> 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 1914, and collected in a single volume in 1916, when it was the bestselling novel in the United States. (Summar