The Midlander
A Midwestern Chronicle of Ambition, Urbanization, and the Human Cost of ProgressBy Booth Tarkington
Length10h 28m
About this audiobook
Booth Tarkington's *The Midlander* is a broad, incisive portrait of an American community caught between inherited traditions and the pressures of modern life. Set in the rapidly changing Midwest, the novel traces the social, economic, and emotional consequences of urban expansion, technological progress, and shifting class ideals. Tarkington combines realist observation with humor, irony, and a persistent elegiac awareness of what modernization displaces. Its attention to manners, family expectations, civic ambition, and generational conflict places the book within the tradition of early twentieth-century American regional fiction, while its critique of progress recalls the social comedy and historical sweep of his better-known work. Born in Indianapolis in 1869, Tarkington drew deeply upon the people, landscapes, and civic transformations of his native Indiana. His privileged upbringing and education at Purdue and Princeton gave him an intimate understanding of established social institutions, while his career as a novelist and playwright sharpened his gift for dialogue, characterization, and satire. The Midwestern world he knew firsthand became the imaginative foundation for his recurring examination of American identity. Readers interested in the cultural history of the American Midwest, the tensions between nostalgia and progress, or the evolution of regional realism will find *The Midlander* especially rewarding. It is both an engaging narrative and a perceptive study of a nation remaking itself.
Audiobook details
GenreGeneral Fiction
Length10 hrs 28 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 30, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Tillie, a Mennonite Maid; a Story of the Pennsylvania Dutch (Annotated)
17CHAPTER XVII
2CHAPTER II
18CHAPTER XVIII
3CHAPTER III
19CHAPTER XIX
4CHAPTER IV
20CHAPTER XX
5CHAPTER V
21CHAPTER XXI
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6CHAPTER VI
22CHAPTER XXII
7CHAPTER VII
23CHAPTER XXIII
8CHAPTER VIII
24CHAPTER XXIV
9CHAPTER IX
25CHAPTER XXV
10CHAPTER X
26CHAPTER XXVI
11CHAPTER XI
27CHAPTER XXVII
12CHAPTER XII
28CHAPTER XXVIII
13CHAPTER XIII
29CHAPTER XXIX
14CHAPTER XIV
30CHAPTER XXX
15CHAPTER XV
31CHAPTER XXXI
16CHAPTER XVI
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