In this Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, "the plucky and romantic Alice tries to rise above the crudities of her hopelessly shabby background."--Amazon.com.

Story of young woman's efforts to overcome the handicaps of little money and mediocre family.

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 ...

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The winner of the 1922 Pulitzer Prize in literature and the subject of several well-received film adaptations, Alice Adams is regarded as one of Booth Tarkington's most ...