Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Monsieur Beaucaire: “Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions”
    Monsieur Beaucaire: “Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions”
    Monsieur Beaucaire: “Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions”
    Ebook53 pages53 minutes

    Monsieur Beaucaire: “Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions”

    By Booth Tarkington

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    Booth Tarkington was born in America’s Mid-West in Indianapolis, Indiana on July 29th, 1869.

    He is one of only three novelists to win the Pulitzer Prize on more than one occasion. When you look through the quality of his work it is easy to understand why. ‘The Magnificent Ambersons’, ‘Alice Adams’, ‘Penrod’ – all classics. The Penrod novels depict a typical upper-middle class American boy of 1910 vintage, revealing a fine, bookish sense of American humor. At one time, his Penrod series was as well-known and as highly regarded as Mark Twain’s ‘Huckleberry Finn’.

    Much of Tarkington's work consists of satirical and closely observed studies of the American class system and its foibles. Coming as he did from a patrician Midwestern family that lost much of its wealth after the Panic of 1873 the foundations for that outlook are clear.

    Today, he is best known for his novel ‘The Magnificent Ambersons’ but almost every book he published is a consummate literary example of his brilliance. Few authors can rival that.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHorse's Mouth
    Release dateSep 1, 2019
    ISBN9781787807303
    Monsieur Beaucaire: “Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions”
    Author

    Booth Tarkington

    Booth Tarkington (1869–1946) was an American novelist and playwright. Tarkington won the Pulitzer Prize in 1919 for the novel The Magnificent Ambersons and again in 1922 for Alice Adams. He is one of only three authors to have been awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once. Though Tarkington was educated at Princeton University, his works are strongly grounded in his native Indiana. 

    Read more from Booth Tarkington

    Related to Monsieur Beaucaire

    Related ebooks

    Literary Fiction For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      La Otra Historia

      Jun 30, 2022

      La Otra Historia
      14 min read

    • Article

      Hello, Grim Reaper

      Dec 15, 2021

      She was a babe. A fully paid-up, card-carrying babe. There was absolutely no doubt about it, and she was heading straight for me. She was almost sprinting towards me across the recently reimagined lobby of Claridge’s. She looked up, her scarlet-anoin

      3 min read

    • Article

      Stranger Than Fiction

      Apr 12, 2024

      Stranger Than Fiction
      5 min read

    • Article

      The Old Un's Notes

      Jan 11, 2023

      Just before Christmas, historian Lady Antonia Fraser composed a verse on confronting that age-old companion to faith – doubt – at Farm Street Church, Mayfair. Nick Downes is one of the most treasured cartoonists at Oldie Towers (see above right for a

      4 min read

    • Article

      Last Orders

      Jul 28, 2021

      Last Orders
      5 min read

    • Article

      An Inspired Theft

      Jan 9, 2018

      An Inspired Theft
      3 min read

    • Article

      Typewriter

      Aug 2, 2021

      Chère Madame. Vous ne vous rappelleriez pas de moi, mais de ma part… Tap-tap-tap-tap-tap. Tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-tap… She flicks the return bar – PING – and her fingers fall back into rhythm. Catherine’s French comes as naturally as the movement of her

      5 min read

    • Article

      My Interiors Life: Weaned On The Small Screen

      Nov 25, 2021

      FOR ME, IT WAS ALL DOWN TO what I saw on the box (which was a lot) — and this extended too to the arenas of action: a fantastic littering of such beautiful and extraordinary interiors, not one of which had I ever set foot in, nor even so much as glim

      9 min read

    • Article

      Return Of The Bores

      Mar 9, 2022

      All bores are boring but not all boring people are bores. There are plenty of innocent folk who like nothing more than to share their anxieties about the village fête with you – and they’ll do it for 20 minutes you’ll never get back. Yet these are ju

      3 min read

    • Article

      Readers’ Letters

      Sep 20, 2023

      SIR: My mother, for one, was delighted that Gareth Neame chose Highclere Castle as the location for Downton Abbey (September issue). She was a teacher during the war, and her entire school was evacuated to Highclere. The awestruck reaction of a bunch

      6 min read

    • Article

      The Art Of Conversation

      Nov 1, 2023

      The Art Of Conversation
      4 min read

    • Article

      Double Trouble In Chaotic Comedy

      Nov 25, 2021

      THE ARRIVAL OF THE Christmas season is a reminder that while the West End is the beating heart of British theatre, it is in what used to be called the “provinces” — now more delicately in arts-speak the “regions” — that most of the country experience

      3 min read

    • Article

      That's All Ffolkes!

      Feb 7, 2024

      That's All Ffolkes!
      3 min read

    • Article

      A summons FROM AUNTIE

      Jan 25, 2023

      ‘I know a fat old policeman, he’s always on our street,’ sang Mr Dear at the top of what I suppose we must call his voice. ‘A large and jolly red-faced man, he really is a treat.’ Then, suddenly, the only sounds were the gentle hum of the engine, th

      3 min read

    • Article

      Tales From The Echoing Green

      Jul 19, 2023

      Tales From The Echoing Green
      4 min read

    • Article

      The Great Jester: On Simon Rich’s ‘Hits and Misses’

      Jul 27, 2018

      In the middle of his fifth collection of comedic short stories, Hits and Misses, Simon Rich writes a story from the perspective of a court jester named Havershire. “I’ve developed what the French might call une reputation,” the clowns says as introdu

      5 min read

    • Article

      Vladimir

      May 22, 2022

      Vladimir
      4 min read

    • Article

      The Bob Monkhouse Guide to Orgies

      Feb 7, 2024

      Well done, King Charles, for making us all more prostate-aware. I have been personally prostate-conscious for many years, thanks to one of the kings of comedy, the late, great Bob Monkhouse, who died of prostate cancer, aged 75, in December 1973. Bob

      3 min read

    • Article

      Readers’ Letters

      Nov 17, 2021

      SIR: I must applaud William Cook (Who was Blackie the donkey?, October issue) in maintaining the tradition of never allowing the facts to mar a good story. Don Mackay arrived at Jarandilla de la Vera first, not in the wake of Hugh Whittow of the Sun.

      5 min read

    • Article

      ‘We've Gone On Holiday By Mistake’

      Jun 28, 2023

      Is there somethingyou really miss when you're away? For the last 38 years, I would say my wife [Joan Washington, who died in 2021, aged 74]. Do you travel light? My luggage got lost flying to New York 22 years ago, and I swore I would never ever trav

      3 min read

    • Article

      Mark Gatiss: ‘I’m Currently Very, Very Ashamed Of Being English’

      Oct 31, 2021

      Mark Gatiss scans the breakfast menu at an east London restaurant with a famished eye. We’re at the hinge moment between the nightlife of an A-lister, who attended the James Bond premiere the previous evening, and the day job as an actor who, by his

      8 min read

    • Article

      Letter Books

      May 18, 2023

      Letter Books
      10 min read

    • Article

      The Art Of Speaking

      Feb 8, 2023

      The Art Of Speaking
      4 min read

    • Article

      Search PARTY

      Jan 13, 2021

      You find me hunched over the ironing board in the kitchen and thinking dark thoughts about Mrs Bertha Berman. Tell me honestly, is there any more soul-destroying occupation known to womankind than the ironing and attempted folding of fitted bed shee

      3 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for Monsieur Beaucaire

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      Monsieur Beaucaire - Booth Tarkington

      Monsieur Beaucaire by Booth Tarkington

      Booth Tarkington was born in America’s Mid-West in Indianapolis, Indiana on July 29th, 1869.

      He is one of only three novelists to win the Pulitzer Prize on more than one occasion. When you look through the quality of his work it is easy to understand why. ‘The Magnificent Ambersons’, ‘Alice Adams’, ‘Penrod’ – all classics. The Penrod novels depict a typical upper-middle class American boy of 1910 vintage, revealing a fine, bookish sense of American humor. At one time, his Penrod series was as well-known and as highly regarded as Mark Twain’s ‘Huckleberry Finn’.

      Much of Tarkington's work consists of satirical and closely observed studies of the American class system and its foibles. Coming as he did from a patrician Midwestern family that lost much of its wealth after the Panic of 1873 the foundations for that outlook are clear.

      Today, he is best known for his novel ‘The Magnificent Ambersons’ but almost every book he published is a consummate literary example of his brilliance.  Few authors can rival that.

      Index of Contents

      MONSIEUR BEAUCAIRE

      Chapter I

      Chapter II

      Chapter III

      Chapter IV

      Chapter V

      Chapter VI

      BOOTH TARKINGTON – A SHORT BIOGRAPHY

      BOOTH TARKINGTON – A CONCISE BIBLIOGRAPHY

      MONSIEUR BEAUCAIRE

      Chapter I

      The young Frenchman did very well what he had planned to do. His guess that the Duke would cheat proved good. As the unshod half-dozen figures that had been standing noiselessly in the entryway stole softly into the shadows of the chamber, he leaned across the table and smilingly plucked a card out of the big Englishman's sleeve.

      Merci, M. le Duc! he laughed, rising and stepping back from the table.

      The Englishman cried out, It means the dirty work of silencing you with my bare hands! and came at him.

      Do not move, said M. Beaucaire, so sharply that the other paused. Observe behind you.

      The Englishman turned, and saw what trap he had blundered into; then stood transfixed, impotent, alternately scarlet with rage and white with the vital shame of discovery. M. Beaucaire remarked, indicating the silent figures by a polite wave of the hand, Is it not a compliment to monsieur that I procure six large men to subdue him? They are quite devote' to me, and monsieur is alone. Could it be that he did not wish even his lackeys to know he play with the yo'ng Frenchman who Meestaire Nash does not like in the pomp-room? Monsieur is unfortunate to have come on foot and alone to my apartment.

      The Duke's mouth foamed over with chaotic revilement. His captor smiled brightly, and made a slight gesture, as one who brushes aside a boisterous insect. With the same motion he quelled to stony quiet a resentful impetus of his servants toward the Englishman.

      It's murder, is it, you carrion! finished the Duke.

      M. Beaucaire lifted his shoulders in a mock shiver. What words! No, no, no! No killing! A such word to a such host! No, no, not mur-r-der; only disgrace! He laughed a clear, light laugh with a rising inflection, seeming to launch himself upon an adventurous quest for sympathy.

      You little devilish scullion! spat out the Duke.

      "Tut, tut! But I forget. Monsieur has pursue' his studies of deportment amongs' his fellow-countrymen.

      Do you dream a soul in Bath will take your word that I—that I—

      That M. le Duc de Winterset had a card up his sleeve?

      You pitiful stroller, you stableboy, born in a stable—

      Is it not an honor to be born where monsieur must have been bred?

      You scurvy foot-boy, you greasy barber, you cutthroat groom—

      Overwhelm'! The young man bowed with imperturbable elation. M. le Duc appoint' me to all the office' of his househol'.

      You mustachioed fool, there are not five people of quality in Bath will speak to you—

      No, monsieur, not on the parade; but how many come to play with me here? Because I will play always, night or day, for what one will, for any long, and always fair, monsieur.

      You outrageous varlet! Every one knows you came to England as the French Ambassador's barber. What man of fashion will listen to you? Who will believe you?

      All people, monsieur. Do you think I have not calculate', that I shall make a failure of my little enterprise?

      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1