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ALICE ADAMS 


Booth Tarkington 


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Alice Adams 
by Booth Tarkington (1869-1946) 


A Pulitzer Prize-winner in 1922, Alice Adams 
chronicles the attempts of a lower middle 
class American midwestern family at the 
turn of the 20th century to climb the social 
ladder. The eponymous heroine is at the 
heart of the story, a young woman who 
wants a better place in society and a better 
life. As literary critic Gerard Previn Meyer 
stated, “Apart from being the contribution to 
social history its author conceived it to be, 
[Alice Adams] is something more, that something being what has attracted 
to it so large a public: its portrait of a (despite her faults) ‘lovable girl’.” 


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Cover design by Kathryn Delaney 
Portrait of a young woman by Harrison Fisher (1909) 





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