Alice Adams: Original and Unabridged

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Alice Adams is the 1921 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Booth Tarkington. The narrative centers on the character of a young woman, Alice Adams, who aspires to climb the social ladder and win the affections of a wealthy young man named Arthur Russell. Arthur is an upper-class young man smitten with Alice, who is not entirely aware of the Adams family’s status in town. The story is set in a lower-middle-class household in an unnamed town in the Midwest shortly after World War I.