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The Man from Home

Chapter 3: ILLUSTRATIONS
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A plain-spoken lawyer from the American Midwest arrives at a fashionable Italian resort and upends a group of European aristocrats and socialites through blunt honesty and small-town values. The arrival triggers romantic entanglements, mistaken identities, and comic confrontations with rank-conscious hosts, an incognito noble, and matchmaking schemes. Scenes move through terraces, gardens, and hotel salons where cultural misunderstandings expose vanity and hypocrisy while sentimental loyalty and straightforward decency challenge old-world affectation. The play balances brisk humor and satirical social observation with moments of warmth as characters are forced to reconsider assumptions about class, sincerity, and the costs of social performance.

THE MAN FROM HOME

By

BOOTH TARKINGTON
AND
HARRY LEON WILSON

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS FROM SCENES IN THE PLAY

New York and London
Harpers and Brothers Publishings

Published 1908



TO
WILLIAM HODGE




ACT I.—The terrace of the Hotel Regina Margherita on the cliff at Sorrento. Morning.

ACT II.—The entrance garden. Afternoon.

ACT III.—An apartment in the hotel. Evening.

ACT IV.—The terrace. Morning.

The time is the present.

The scene is Sorrento, in Southern Italy.