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The Beautiful Lady

af Booth Tarkington

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Is there something about aesthetic beauty that can soothe the soul of even the most troubled individual? That's the question at the center of Booth Tarkington's eminently entertaining short novel The Beautiful Lady. In the story, a down-on-his-luck Italian who is barely scraping by in Paris has his whole life turned upside down by a chance encounter with the enchanting temptress referred to in the book's title.

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During a visit to Paris, Booth Tarkington observed the bizarre figure of a young man sitting at a café with a theatre advertisement painted on his (shaven) head. Wondering what could have led someone into such a humiliating situation, he wrote this humorous novelette, first published in “Harper’s Monthly.”

What resulted is an amusing tale. The protagonist of the story is Ansolini, a young man from Naples who has run through his funds and is desperate for money. Soon after the café incident, he is offered a position acting as an escort and tutor for Rufus Poor, the son of a wealthy man. Ansolini is wholly unsuited to the responsibility, and easily manipulated by Rufus into accompanying him on wild evenings of drink and gambling. In the course of their adventures, Ansolini saves the “beautiful lady” of the story from a rascally fortune- hunter and helps Rufus win her favors. The plot entails love triangles and social intrigue, and the tone is light- hearted.

As Tarkington’s biographer notes, “The Beautiful Lady” is “a minor but diverting work.” It will mainly be of interest to readers seeking the author’s early works, from before he gained fame for his fictional portrayals of the Midwestern US in the early decades of the 20th century. ( )
2 stem danielx | Jun 30, 2013 |
Another charming story.....Americans abroad in Europe again........this one with also with a certain tinge of predictability, yet it had a certain urgency at the end making me anxious to find out what happens, one of my favorite qualities of any fiction...the reason i read! ( )
  jeffome | Oct 24, 2010 |
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Is there something about aesthetic beauty that can soothe the soul of even the most troubled individual? That's the question at the center of Booth Tarkington's eminently entertaining short novel The Beautiful Lady. In the story, a down-on-his-luck Italian who is barely scraping by in Paris has his whole life turned upside down by a chance encounter with the enchanting temptress referred to in the book's title.

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