Author: | Booth Tarkington | ISBN: | 1230000222206 |
Publisher: | Unsecretbooks.com | Publication: | March 2, 2014 |
Imprint: | Language: | English |
Author: | Booth Tarkington |
ISBN: | 1230000222206 |
Publisher: | Unsecretbooks.com |
Publication: | March 2, 2014 |
Imprint: | |
Language: | English |
Alice Adams is a 1921 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Booth Tarkington. 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, Alice Adams, who aspires to climb the social ladder and win the affections of a wealthy young man named Arthur Russell. The story is set in a lower-middle-class household in an unnamed town in the Midwest shortly after World War I.
Alice Adams is a 1921 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Booth Tarkington. 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, Alice Adams, who aspires to climb the social ladder and win the affections of a wealthy young man named Arthur Russell. The story is set in a lower-middle-class household in an unnamed town in the Midwest shortly after World War I.