Alice Adams - Tarkington, Booth
21,99 €
inkl. MwSt.

Versandfertig in 1-2 Wochen
  • Broschiertes Buch

First published in 1921, ¿Alice Adams¿ is a novel by American dramatist and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Newton Booth Tarkington (1869¿1946). Among only three other novelists to have won the Pulitzer Prize more than once, Tarkington was one of the greatest authors of the 1910s and 1920s who helped usher in Indiana's Golden Age of literature. One of his most famous and successful novels, ¿Alice Adams¿ follows the eponymous character and her struggle up the social ladder from humble beginnings in order to win the favour of a well-to-do young man. A classic tale of ambition and deceit set in…mehr

Andere Kunden interessierten sich auch für
Produktbeschreibung
First published in 1921, ¿Alice Adams¿ is a novel by American dramatist and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Newton Booth Tarkington (1869¿1946). Among only three other novelists to have won the Pulitzer Prize more than once, Tarkington was one of the greatest authors of the 1910s and 1920s who helped usher in Indiana's Golden Age of literature. One of his most famous and successful novels, ¿Alice Adams¿ follows the eponymous character and her struggle up the social ladder from humble beginnings in order to win the favour of a well-to-do young man. A classic tale of ambition and deceit set in the American Midwest following WWI. Other notable works by this author include: ¿Monsieur Beaucaire¿ (1900), ¿The Turmoil¿ (1915), and ¿The Magnificent Ambersons¿ (1918). Read & Co. Classics are republishing this novel now in a new edition complete with a biography of the author from ¿Encyclopædia Britannicä (1922).
Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Autorenporträt
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.