Alice Adams _ Second Tarkington’s novel to win a Pulitzer Prize – Originally published in 1921 _ Plus: Biography of Booth Tarkington.

The story is set, after World War I, in a small Midwestern town where Alice grows up in a lower-middle-class family just. Alice meets a wealthy young man Arthur and, despite her lower-class upbringing,

tries to win the affection of this gentleman of a higher social class in life. Desperate to keep her family’s lower-middle-class status a secret, she and her parents concoct various schemes to keep their family afloat.

Wuilia Ebooks _ ISBN 978-2-38481-053-6 _ English Version _ ePub _ 88,367 words (5 hours 22 minutes)- 489 pages _ 19/05/2022.