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Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington

Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington

By: Mentor New York
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 A Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, 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 Gerard Previn Meyer has 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'." (Summary by Jeannie)Copyright Mentor New York Art Literary History & Criticism
Episodes
  • Chapter 25

    Chapter 25
    Jul 16 2023
    16 mins
  • Chapter 24

    Chapter 24
    Jul 16 2023
    11 mins
  • Chapter 23

    Chapter 23
    Jul 16 2023
    20 mins
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