Miss Susie Slagle's by Augusta Tucker

Miss Susie Slagle's by Augusta Tucker

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Miss Susie Slagle's by Augusta Tucker

Originally published in 1939, Miss Susie Slagle's spent half a year on the national best-seller lists, went through twenty-three hardcover printings, and became a major Hollywood motion picture produced by John Houseman. Now Augusta Tucker's beloved novel of Baltimore in the halcyon years before the Great War -- and of the Johns Hopkins medical students who boarded at Miss Susie Slagle's house on Biddle Street -- is reissued in the Maryland Paperback Bookshelf. Richly detailed and warmly nostalgic, Miss Susie Slagle's is about to charm a new generation of readers.
New generations will enjoy discovering the Maryland Paperback Bookshelf reprint of this emotion-packed, best-selling novel about medical students at the famed Johns Hopkins Hospital before World War I and their years in Baltimore at the boarding house of the gentle Miss Susie SlagleMaryland Magazine Originally published in 1939, Augusta Tucker's beloved novel of turn-of-the century Baltimore spent half a year on the national best-seller lists and became a major Hollywood motion picture produced by John Houseman. Augusta Tucker writes of Baltimore like a traveler enchanted with a strange land. New York Herald-Tribune

Augusta Tucker was the best selling author of Miss Susie Slagle's, and The Man Miss Susie Loved. She wrote more than 300 newspaper and magazine feature articles, book reviews and opinion-editorials. She was a contributing writer to The Baltimore Sun and The Evening Sun.

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ISBN 13 9780801834196
ISBN 10 0801834198
Title Miss Susie Slagle's
Author Augusta Tucker
Series Maryland Paperback Bookshelf
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press
Year published 1987-03-29
Number of pages 352
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.