Seventeen

Illustrated by Arthur William Brown. A humorous novel which 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 pre-World War I Midwestern United States. It was published as sketches in the Metropolitan Magazine in 1914, and collected in a single volume in 1916, when it was the bestselling novel in the United States. Seventeen was adapted into films, plays, and even a radio broadcast by Orson Welles