His Own People

Complete and unabridged, with 59 full-page plates by Telemaco Signorini, Odoardo Borrani and Luigi Nono. A young American in Rome, flattered by a title and a shabby-genteel circle of expatriates, spends his money proving he belongs among them — and the compatriots he snubs turn out to be the only people who behave decently. Tarkington was an Indianapolis man and one of only four writers to take th...