Alice Adams
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 novelists to have won the Pulitzer Prize more than once, Tarkington was one of the greatest authors of the 1910s and 1920s who helped usher in Indiana's Golden Age of literature. One of his most famous and successful novels, Alice Adams follows the eponymous character and her struggle up the social ladder from humble beginnings in order to win the favour of a well-to-do young man. A classic tale of ambition and deceit set in the American Midwest following WWI. Other notable works…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-4455-3760-3
- EAN: 9781445537603
- Produktnummer: 6871576
- Verlag: Read & Co. Classics
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 268 S.
- Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.0 cm x D1.5 cm 362 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 362
Über den Autor
Jeremy Beer, a native of Indiana, is president of the American Ideas Institute. He is the author of The Philanthropic Revolution: An Alternative History of American Charity, and coeditor of American Conservatism: An Encyclopedia. He co-founded the influential localist web journal Front Porch Republic in 2009. He and his wife, Kara, live in Phoenix, Arizona.
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