Seventeen

Synopsis

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.

Text license: CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source

Details

Type

Book

Release date

March 1, 1916

Genres

comedy

Created by

Booth Tarkington

Countries

United States

Cover: Wikimedia Commons · Harper & Brothers; Booth Tarkington, author; Arthur William Brown, illustrator · Public domain · Source