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 1914, and collected in a single volume in 1916, when it was the bestselling novel in the United States. (Summary by Wikipedia)
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Chapters
- Chapter 1
William
04:19 - Chapter 2
The Unknown
10:09 - Chapter 3
The Painful Age
09:09 - Chapter 4
Genesis And Clematis
08:46 - Chapter 5
Sorrows Within A Boiler
09:37 - Chapter 6
Truculence
05:35 - Chapter 7
Mr. Baxters Evening Clothes
03:54 - Chapter 8
Jane
14:25 - Chapter 9
Little Sisters Have Big Ears
06:16 - Chapter 10
Mr. Parcher And Love
16:22 - Chapter 11
Beginning A True Friendship
12:54 - Chapter 12
Progress Of The Symptons
19:10 - Chapter 13
At Home To His Friends
10:53 - Chapter 14
Time Does Fly
15:00 - Chapter 15
Romance Of Statistics
14:11 - Chapter 16
The Shower
13:56 - Chapter 17
Jane's Theory
17:17 - Chapter 18
The Big, Fat Lummox
13:42 - Chapter 19
I Dunno Why It Is
09:20 - Chapter 20
Sydney Carton
11:35 - Chapter 21
My Little Sweethearts
14:58 - Chapter 22
Forshadowings
18:27 - Chapter 23
Fathers Forget
16:05 - Chapter 24
Clothes Make The Man
20:05 - Chapter 25
Youth And Mr. Parcher
13:03 - Chapter 26
Miss Boke
17:50 - Chapter 27
Marooned
15:45 - Chapter 28
Rannie Kirsted
15:39 - Chapter 29
Don't Forget
26:07 - Chapter 30
The Bride-To-Be
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