Booth Tarkington’s Alice Adams

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Booth Tarkington’s *Alice Adams* is a 1921 Pulitzer Prize–winning novel about a young woman from a struggling Midwestern family whose social ambitions and romantic hopes clash with the rigid class expectations of her small town.

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instanceOf novel
adaptedTo film
author Booth Tarkington
awarded Pulitzer Prize for the Novel
awardYear 1922
countryOfOrigin United States
criticalReputation classic of American social realism
firstEditionFormat print
genre domestic fiction
realist novel
social novel
hasAdaptation Alice Adams (1923 film)
Alice Adams (1935 film)
linked to: Alice Adams (film)
hasInfluenceOn American social-critique fiction
hasTitleCharacter Alice Adams
isPulitzerPrizeWinningWork true
literaryMovement American realism
literaryPeriod 20th-century American literature
mainCharacter Alice Adams
narrativePerspective third-person narration
notableCharacter Arthur Russell
Mrs. Adams
Virgil Adams
Walter Adams
originalLanguage English
partOf Booth Tarkington bibliography
protagonistGender female
publicationYear 1921
publisher Doubleday, Page & Company
linked to: Doubleday
settingLocation Midwestern United States
settingType small town
subjectMatter courtship and marriage prospects
middle-class life in the Midwest
social mobility
theme class expectations
economic struggle
family dynamics
romantic aspiration
social ambition
social class
timePeriodOfSetting early 20th century

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Alice Adams adaptationOf Booth Tarkington’s Alice Adams