Alice Adams (novel)

Alice Adams
First edition (1921)
AuthorBooth Tarkington
LanguageEnglish
PublisherDoubleday, Page & Co.
Publication date
June 1921
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint

Alice Adams is a 1921 novel by Booth Tarkington that received the 1922 Pulitzer Prize for the Novel.[1] It was adapted as a film in 1923 by Rowland V. Lee[citation needed] and more famously in 1935 by George Stevens.[2] The narrative centers on the character of a young woman (the eponymous 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.

  1. ^ Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. pulitzer.org.
  2. ^ Alice Adams at IMDb Edit this at Wikidata
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