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Booth Tarkington's second novel to win the Pulitzer Prize, following The Magnificent Ambersons, Alice Adams tells the story of the eponymous Alice, a woman of modest means from a midwestern town in post-World War I America. Alice falls in love with the wealthy Arthur Russell,... Read Full Overview

Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington is a classic American novel that follows the story of a young woman, Alice, and her family's struggle with financial hardship. Alice is determined to rise above her circumstances and make a successful life for herself. With courage and determination,... Read Full Overview

Alice Adams is a 1921 novel by Booth Tarkington that received the 1922 Pulitzer Prize for the Novel. It was adapted as a film in 1923 by Rowland V. Lee and, more famously, in 1935 by George Stevens. The narrative centers on the character of a young woman (the eponymous Alice... Read Full Overview

The basis for George Stevens's major motion picture starring Katharine Hepburn in her Oscar-nominated leading role. In a small Midwestern town in the wake of World War I, Alice Adams delightedly finds herself being pursued by Arthur Russell, a gentleman of a higher social class... Read Full Overview

Booth Tarkington was a Pulitzer Prize winning American author best known for writing historical novels such as The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams. Many of Tarkington's books are set in fictional towns in the Midwest near the turn of the 20th century.

Alice Adams, the daughter of middle-class parents, wants desperately to belong with the people of "high society" who live in her town. Ultimately, her ambitions are tempered by the realities of her situation, which she learns to accept with grace and style. Alice's resiliency... Read Full Overview

In a small Midwestern town in the wake of World War I, Alice Adams delightedly finds herself being pursued by Arthur Russell, a gentleman of a higher social class in life. Desperate to keep her family's lower-middle-class status a secret, she and her parents concoct various schemes... Read Full Overview

Alice Adams, a novel by Booth Tarkington, was first published in 1921. Tarkington's novel tells the story of the disintegration of a lower middle-class family in a small Midwestern town. Alice Adams was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for best novel in 1922. A social climber, the... Read Full Overview

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... Read Full Overview

Over the pictures, the vases, the old brown plush rocking-chairs and the stool, over the three gilt chairs, over the new chintz-covered easy chair and the gray velure sofa--over everything everywhere, was the familiar coating of smoke and grime.... Yet here was not fault of housewifery;... Read Full Overview

Alice Adams is a young woman with ambitions to marry above her status. To do so, she must lie about her family's economic status to the young man who is courting her. Meanwhile her mother is pushing her unambitious husband into ventures that he really doesn't want to venture... Read Full Overview

Alice Adams is a 1921 novel by Booth Tarkington that received the 1922 Pulitzer Prize for the Novel. It was adapted as a film in 1923 by Rowland V. Lee and more famously in 1935 by George Stevens. The narrative centers on the character of a young woman (the eponymous Alice Adams)... Read Full Overview