A Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Alice Adams chronicles the attempts of a lower middle class American midwestern family at the turn of the 20th century to climb the social ladder. The eponymous heroine is at the heart of the story, a young woman who wants a better place in society and a better life. As Gerard Previn Meyer has stated, “Apart from being the contribution to social history its author conceived it to be, [Alice Adams] is something more, that something being what has attracted to it so large a public: its portrait of a (despite her faults) ‘lovable girl’.”
Latest episodes of the podcast Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington
- 01 – Chapter 01
- 02 – Chapter 02
- 03 – Chapter 03
- 04 – Chapter 04
- 05 – Chapter 05
- 06 – Chapter 06
- 07 – Chapter 07
- 08 – Chapter 08
- 09 – Chapter 09
- 10 – Chapter 10
- 11 – Chapter 11
- 12 – Chapter 12
- 13 – Chapter 13
- 14 – Chapter 14
- 15 – Chapter 15
- 16 – Chapter 16
- 17 – Chapter 17
- 18 – Chapter 18
- 19 – Chapter 19
- 20 – Chapter 20
- 21 – Chapter 21
- 22 – Chapter 22
- 23 – Chapter 23
- 24 – Chapter 24
- 25 – Chapter 25