The Conquest of Canaan (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

by Booth Tarkington

Overview

Joe Louden, once a poor outcast in Canaan, Indiana, returns as a lawyer to find much has changed. After dealing with a love triangle involving a judge’s daughter, he decides to defend an innocent man accused of murder, but must defy the town’s vested interests to do so. This 1905 novel features Tarkington’s gimlet-eyed view of small-town life.

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781411443105
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble
Publication date:	03/01/2011
Series:	Barnes & Noble Digital Library
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	414
File size:	466 KB

About the Author

Booth Tarkington (1869-1946) was an American novelist best known for his depictions of life in small Midwestern cities. A lover of the theater, he dramatized several of his own books. Today, he is most noted as the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Magnificent Ambersons and for the novel Alice Adams, about the frustrated ambitions of a lower middle class young woman.