Seventeen (Tarkington novel)

Seventeen: A Tale of Youth and Summer Time and the Baxter Family Especially William
	First edition
Author	Booth Tarkington
Language	English
Publisher	Harper and Brothers
Publication date	March 1916
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (Hardcover)
Pages	329 pp (first edition, hardback)

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,^[1] when it was the bestselling novel in the United States.^[2]

^ Calta, Louis. "'Seventeen' bows here this evening." New York Times, Jun 21, 1951, p. 24.
^ Hackett, Alice Payne and Burke, James Henry (1977). 80 Years of Bestsellers: 1895 - 1975. New York: R.R. Bowker Company. p. 82. ISBN 0-8352-0908-3.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

[1] Calta, Louis. "'Seventeen' bows here this evening." New York Times, Jun 21, 1951, p. 24.

[2] Hackett, Alice Payne and Burke, James Henry (1977). 80 Years of Bestsellers: 1895 - 1975. New York: R.R. Bowker Company. p. 82. ISBN 0-8352-0908-3.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

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