William Sylvanus Baxter is seventeen and takes himself very seriously. When Miss Pratt, a baby-talking visitor, arrives in town for the summer, William and every boy he knows fall hopelessly for her, and his pursuit is undone again and again by money troubles, his father’s evening clothes and his sharp-eared little sister Jane.
One of the funniest American novels about adolescence, as sharp about the agonies of being young as when it appeared in 1916. Download the free EPUB.