Alice Adams

Description

Alice Adams is a book by American novelist Booth Tarkington, first published in 1921. It won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1922. Set in a lower-middle-class household just after World War I, the book tells the story of Alice Adams, a young woman with ambitions to marry above her status. To do so, she must lie about her family's economic status to Arthur Russell, the wealthy upper-class man who is courting her. Meanwhile her mother is pushing her unambitious husband into ventures that he really doesn't want to venture into; and her brother Walter is getting into debt with his gambling habit. It all culminates in a crash when lies are found out and truths revealed. The book was adapted into a film in 1923 and again in 1935.

The 1922 Novel winner in the Pulitzer Prize list.

This book has 85,255 words, 162 pages in the PDF version, and was originally published in 1921.

Production notes: This ebook of Alice Adams was published by Global Grey on the 25th May 2018, and updated on the 20th September 2022. The artwork used for the cover is 'Portrait of Mrs. Cecil Wade' by John Singer Sargent.