# The Gentleman from Indiana

Author: Tarkington, Booth, 1869-1946

Genre: Category: Novels

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/9659

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Gentleman+from+Indiana+Tarkington&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

There is a fertile stretch of flat lands in Indiana where unagrarian Eastern travellers, glancing from car-windows, shudder and return their eyes to interior upholstery, preferring even the swaying caparisons of a Pullman to the monotony without. The landscape lies interminably level: bleak in winter, a desolate plain of mud and snow; hot and dusty in summer, in its flat lonesomeness, miles on miles with not one cool hill slope away from the sun. The persistent tourist who seeks for signs of man in this sad expanse perceives a reckless amount of rail fence; at intervals a large barn; and, here and there, man himself, incurious, patient, slow, looking up from the fields apathetically as th...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 19](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-gentleman-from-indiana-9659/chapters/19/index.md)
- [Chapter 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-gentleman-from-indiana-9659/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Chapter 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-gentleman-from-indiana-9659/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Chapter 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-gentleman-from-indiana-9659/chapters/12/index.md)
- [Chapter 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-gentleman-from-indiana-9659/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Chapter 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-gentleman-from-indiana-9659/chapters/15/index.md)
- [Chapter 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-gentleman-from-indiana-9659/chapters/13/index.md)
- [Chapter 16](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-gentleman-from-indiana-9659/chapters/16/index.md)
- [Chapter 17](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-gentleman-from-indiana-9659/chapters/17/index.md)
- [Chapter 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-gentleman-from-indiana-9659/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-gentleman-from-indiana-9659/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-gentleman-from-indiana-9659/chapters/14/index.md)
- [Chapter 18](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-gentleman-from-indiana-9659/chapters/18/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-gentleman-from-indiana-9659/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-gentleman-from-indiana-9659/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Chapter 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-gentleman-from-indiana-9659/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-gentleman-from-indiana-9659/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-gentleman-from-indiana-9659/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-gentleman-from-indiana-9659/chapters/5/index.md)