Alice Adams vs Voyage Out: Which Should You Read?

Alice Adams Booth Tarkington · 1921 ★★★★☆ 3.6 211 pages · ≈ 3 h 54 m · Challenging

Alice Adams is Booth Tarkington’s second novel to win a Pulitzer Prize, just three years after his novel The Magnificent Ambersons won it. The novel tells the story of Alice, a Midwestern girl who grows up in a…

Voyage Out Virginia Woolf · 1915 ★★★★☆ 3.8 Challenging

“The Voyage Out” by Virginia Woolf. This is a story about a young English woman, Rachel, on a sea voyage from London, to a South American coastal city of Santa Marina. As I read the story, the title of the story…