9781445537603 - Alice Adams - Booth Tarkington
9781445537603 - Alice Adams - Booth Tarkington
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Alice Adams

One of Tarkington’s most famous and successful novels, “Alice Adams” follows the eponymous character and her struggle up the social ladder from humble beginnings in order to win the favour of a well-to-do young man. A classic tale of ambition and deceit set in the American Midwest following WWI.

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Author

Booth Tarkington

Imprint

Read & Co. Classics

Categories

Family Life

Literary

Small Town & Rural

Fiction

ISBN

9781445537603, 9781528791410

Formats Available

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Pages

268

Publication Date

27 August 2016

Dimensions 5.5 × 8.5 in

First published in 1921, “Alice Adams” is a novel by American dramatist and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Newton Booth Tarkington (1869–1946). Among only three other novelists to have won the Pulitzer Prize more than once, Tarkington was one of the greatest authors of the 1910s and 1920s who helped usher in Indiana’s Golden Age of literature. One of his most famous and successful novels, “Alice Adams” follows the eponymous character and her struggle up the social ladder from humble beginnings in order to win the favour of a well-to-do young man. A classic tale of ambition and deceit set in the American Midwest following WWI. Other notable works by this author include: “Monsieur Beaucaire” (1900), “The Turmoil” (1915), and “The Magnificent Ambersons” (1918). Read & Co. Classics are republishing this novel now in a new edition complete with a biography of the author from “Encyclopædia Britannica” (1922).

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