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Alice Adams

First published: 1921
Pages: 220

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Chapter 01
11:57
Chapter 02
15:57
Chapter 03
18:47
Chapter 04
13:21
Chapter 05
18:00
Chapter 06
25:00
Chapter 07
17:52
Chapter 08
14:45
Chapter 09
17:08
Chapter 10
16:23
Chapter 11
21:28
Chapter 12
29:34
Chapter 13
14:21
Chapter 14
20:10
Chapter 15
19:43
Chapter 16
17:36
Chapter 17
15:43
Chapter 18
17:03
Chapter 19
17:19
Chapter 20
21:56
Chapter 21
22:54
Chapter 22
19:09
Chapter 23
19:35
Chapter 24
11:28
Chapter 25
15:54

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About this book

Booth Tarkington's Pulitzer Prize novel of 1921 follows a young woman in a small Midwestern city who is desperate to seem better off than she is. Alice Adams comes from a struggling lower-middle-class family, and when she meets the well-bred Arthur Russell she works hard to charm him while hiding the plain truth of her circumstances. Her performances grow more strained as her father gambles the family's security on a risky business scheme. Tarkington writes about social ambition and shame with genuine sympathy rather than mockery, and the closing image of Alice climbing the steps to a business college is one of the quiet, honest endings in American fiction. A free PDF and EPUB edition is available here.

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Booth Tarkington

Booth Tarkington was an Indianapolis novelist, dramatist, and chronicler of social change in the American Midwest. The Gentleman from Indiana, his 1899 debut, follows a newspaper editor in a fictional Indiana town, while Penrod collects the misadventures of a Midwestern boy.