| Alice Adamss by Booth Tarkington, Fiction, Classics, Literary Contributor(s): Tarkington, Booth (Author) |
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ISBN: 1598185004 ISBN-13: 9781598185003 Publisher: Aegypan OUR PRICE: $24.26 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 2006 * Not available - Not in print at this time *Annotation: This is Booth Tarkington's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "Alice Adams." Tarkington was, in his day, one of the most popular American novelists, with "The Two Vanrevels" and "Mary's Neck" appearing on the annual best-seller lists nine times. His works included "The Gentleman from Indiana," "Monsieur Beaucaire," "The Two Vanrevels," "Penrod," "The Turmoil," "Seventeen," "The Magnificent Ambersons," "Alice Adams," "Gentle Julia," "The Midlander," "The Plutocrat," "Claire Ambler," "Penrod Jashber," "Mirthful Haven," "Mary's Neck," and "Presenting Lily Mars." |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.63" H x 6" W x 9" (0.98 lbs) 208 pages |
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Contributor Bio(s): Tarkington, Booth: - "Newton Booth Tarkington (1869 - 1946) was an American novelist and dramatist best known for his Pulitzer Prize winning novels The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams, which also became a film by Orson Welles. He is one of only three novelists to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once, along with William Faulkner and John Updike. Tarkington chronicled Midwestern American life and the changes wrought by the economic boom times following the Civil War and up to World War I." |