Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington
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"Alice Adams" by Booth Tarkington is a novel published in 1921 that won the Pulitzer Prize. It follows Alice Adams, a young woman from a lower-middle-class Midwestern family who desperately aspires to rise socially and win the heart of wealthy Arthur Russell. Through elaborate lies and careful deceptions, Alice attempts to hide her family's humble circumstances. As her father launches a questionable business venture and her romantic hopes intensify, Alice's carefully constructed
facade begins to crumble, threatening everything she's worked to achieve. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Tarkington, Booth, 1869-1946 |
|---|---|
| Title | Alice Adams |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Adams_(novel) |
| Credits | Produced by Charles Keller, and David Widger |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 82.0 (6th grade). Easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature |
| Subject | Young women -- Fiction |
| Subject | Domestic fiction |
| Subject | Bildungsromans |
| Subject | Social classes -- Fiction |
| Subject | Middle West -- Fiction |
| Subject | Middle class families -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 980 |
| Release Date | Jul 1, 1997 |
| Last Update | Jul 16, 2020 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 657 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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