Alice Adams
by Booth Tarkington
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
-
Camden, Maine, United States
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About This Item
Doubleday, Page & Co, 1921. 1st Ed. hardcover. Very Good. 8vo, orange cloth binding with black lettering, edges foxed, 1st Ed, 1st state, (McBride, p 419 line 14), a novel, 434 pages" .
Synopsis
This compelling satire details irresistible characteristics of social status in a small Midwestern town. Mr. and Mrs. Adams and their two children are members of the lower middle-class. Their daughter, Alice, wrestles with this economic classification and attempts to make the society folk of the town appreciate her. Because Alice has no social influence nor wealth and her presence is held in disregard by prospective suitors, Mrs. Adams tries to improve the situation by persuading her husband to leave a job he's held all his life and to establish a new career. After much apprehension and in possession of a glue formula stolen from his previous employer, he resigns his mediocre but satisfying employment which puts him in a predicament that leads to his professional downfall. Tarkington's understanding of class rivalries, social condescension, and financial avarice is evident in this tale where his main point indicates that in every joyless moment hope, though unexpected, is attainable. He illustrates how the Adams' laborious efforts are ultimately unsuccessful. Any intrusion by Alice and her mother on the upper class is unlikely and Tarkington's depiction of such is secretly amusing.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Stone Soup Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 11738
- Title
- Alice Adams
- Author
- Booth Tarkington
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- 1st Ed
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Page & Co
- Date Published
- 1921
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About the Seller
Stone Soup Books
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Camden, Maine
About Stone Soup Books
Established in 1982, Stone Soup Books is a small secondhand bookstore owned by Paul and Agnes Joy in the coastal town of Camden in Maine. With 25,000 books we cater mainly to readers with a large selection of current and classic paperbacks. We also have large sections of nautical, exploration, Maine, gardening, cookbooks, photography, and art books. Our internet stock includes out of print hardcover books, older children's books, and modern first editions.
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Cloth
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