6 Bücher ähnlich wie Alice Adams
Die Fahrt hinaus
“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 became a metaphor for Rachel's inner journey.
The inner journey within this story is perhaps best summarized in the author's words:
“The next few months passed away, as many years…
Gemeinsame Themen: Young women--fiction, Young women, Bildungsromans
Der Flirt
Valentine Corliss walked up Corliss Street the hottest afternoon of that hot August, a year ago, wearing a suit of white serge which attracted a little attention from those observers who were able to observe anything except the heat. The coat was shaped delicately; it outlined the wearer, and, fitting him as women's clothes fit women, suggested an effeminacy not an attribute of the tall Corliss.…
Gemeinsame Themen: Indiana, Classic Literature
Die Wirren
Booth Tarkington grew up in Indianapolis, and attended Princeton University. He set much of his fiction in Indiana. Tarkington was one of the more popular novelists of his time, and in 1921 booksellers rated him in a poll as the most significant contemporary American author.
-Wikipedia entry for Tarkington
Gemeinsame Themen: Social classes, Bildungsromans, Domestic fiction
Verstand und Gefühl
When Mr. Dashwood dies, he must leave the bulk of his estate to the son by his first marriage, which leaves his second wife and three daughters (Elinor, Marianne, and Margaret) in straitened circumstances. They are taken in by a kindly cousin, but their lack of fortune affects the marriageability of both practical Elinor and romantic Marianne. When Elinor forms an attachment for the wealthy…
Gemeinsame Themen: Social classes, Young women, Classic Literature
Das Haus der Freude
Beautiful, intelligent, and hopelessly addicted to luxury, Lily Bart is the heroine of this Wharton masterpiece. But it is her very taste and moral sensibility that render her unfit for survival in this world.
Gemeinsame Themen: Social classes, American literature, Classic Literature
Frauen und Töchter
The story is about Molly Gibson, the only daughter of a widowed doctor living in a provincial English town in the 1830s.
Gemeinsame Themen: Social classes, Young women