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Alice Adams is Booth Tarkington’s second novel to win a Pulitzer Prize, just three years after his novel The Magnificent Ambersons won it. The novel tells the story of Alice, a Midwestern girl who grows up in a lower-middle-class family just after World War I. Alice meets a wealthy young man and tries to win his affection, despite her lower-class upbringing. Alice Adams was twice adapted for film, with the…
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154 editions- Paperback · English · 2018CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform · 264 pages · 9781727490985
- Paperback · English · 2017CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform · 102 pages · 9781977543813
- Hardcover · English · 2015Alice Adams. Illustrated by Arthur William BrownPalala Press · 454 pages · 9781341497629
- Paperback · English · 2014Vintage · 288 pages · 9780804170802
- Paperback · English · 2011CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform · 208 pages · 9781461057277
- Hardcover · English · 2008Classic Books Library · 252 pages · 9781434114778
FictionMiddle class familiesSocial classesYoung womenClassic LiteraturePulitzer Prize WinnerLarge type booksIndiana, fiction