http://feedbooks.com/list/31 The Pulitzer Prize, pronounced PULL-it-ser, is an American award regarded as the highest national honor in print journalism, literary achievements, and musical composition. It is administered by Columbia University in New York City. Prizes are awarded yearly in twenty-one categories. In twenty of these, each winner receives a certificate and a US$10,000 cash reward. The winner in the public service category of the journalism competition is awarded a gold medal, which always goes to a newspaper, although an individual may be named in the citation. The prize was established by Joseph Pulitzer, a Hungarian-American journalist and newspaper publisher, who left money to Columbia University upon his death in 1911. A portion of his bequest was used to found the university's journalism school in 1912. The first Pulitzer Prizes were awarded on June 4, 1917, and they are now announced each April. Recipients are chosen by an independent board. Source: Wikipedia The Age of Innocence Edith Wharton http://feedbooks.com/book/93 urn:isbn:0375753206 en 1920 Novels The Age of Innocence centers on one society couple's impending marriage and the introduction of a scandalous woman whose presence threatens their happiness. Though the novel questions the assumptions and mores of turn of the century New York society, it never devolves into an outright condemnation of the institution. In fact, Wharton considered this novel an "apology" for the earlier, more brutal and critical, "The House of Mirth". Not to be overlooked is the author's attention to detailing the charms and customs of this caste. The novel is lauded for its accurate portrayal of how the nineteenth-century East Coast American upper class lived and this combined with the social tragedy earned Wharton a Pulitzer - the first Pulitzer awarded to a woman. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/93.png http://feedbooks.com/book/93.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/93.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/93.mobi His Family Ernest Poole http://feedbooks.com/book/2088 urn:isbn:1594627355 en 1917 Novels This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://feedbooks.com/book/2088.png http://feedbooks.com/book/2088.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/2088.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/2088.mobi The Magnificent Ambersons Newton Booth Tarkington http://feedbooks.com/book/2090 urn:isbn:1600968023 en 1918 Novels The Magnificent Ambersons is a 1918 novel by Booth Tarkington which won the 1919 Pulitzer Prize. It was the second novel in the Growth trilogy, which included The Turmoil (1915) and The Midlander (1923, retitled National Avenue in 1927). In 1942 Orson Welles directed a film version, also titled The Magnificent Ambersons. The novel and trilogy traces the growth of the United States through the declining fortunes of three generations of the aristocratic Amberson family in a fictional Mid-Western town, between the end of the Civil War and the early part of the 20th century, a period of rapid industrialization and socio-economic change in America. The decline of the Ambersons is contrasted with the rising fortunes of industrial tycoons and other new-money families, which did not derive power from family names but by "doing things". As George Amberson's friend (name unspecified) says, "don't you think being things is 'rahthuh bettuh' than doing things?" "The Magnificent Ambersons is perhaps Tarkington's best novel," said Van Wyck Brooks. "[It is] a typical story of an American family and town—the great family that locally ruled the roost and vanished virtually in a day as the town spread and darkened into a city. This novel no doubt was a permanent page in the social history of the United States, so admirably conceived and written was the tale of the Ambersons, their house, their fate and the growth of the community in which they were submerged in the end." Even though the story is set in a fictitious city, it was inspired by Tarkington's hometown of Indianapolis and the neighborhood he once lived in, Woodruff Place. Source: Wikipedia This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://feedbooks.com/book/2090.png http://feedbooks.com/book/2090.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/2090.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/2090.mobi Alice Adams Newton Booth Tarkington http://feedbooks.com/book/2091 urn:isbn:1434667022 en 1921 Novels This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://feedbooks.com/book/2091.png http://feedbooks.com/book/2091.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/2091.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/2091.mobi One of Ours Willa Cather http://feedbooks.com/book/2094 urn:isbn:0679737448 en 1923 Novels This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://feedbooks.com/book/2094.png http://feedbooks.com/book/2094.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/2094.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/2094.mobi The Yearling Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings http://feedbooks.com/book/2125 urn:isbn:0689846231 en 1938 Novels Young Readers This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50. http://feedbooks.com/book/2125.png http://feedbooks.com/book/2125.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/2125.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/2125.mobi The Education of Henry Adams Henry Adams http://feedbooks.com/book/4377 en 1918 Biography The Education of Henry Adams records the struggle of Bostonian Henry Adams (1838-1918), in early old age, to come to terms with the dawning 20th century, so different from the world of his youth. It is also a sharp critique of 19th century educational theory and practice. In 1907, Adams began privately circulating copies of a limited edition printed at his own expense. Commercial publication had to await its author's 1918 death, whereupon it won the 1919 Pulitzer Prize. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/4377.png http://feedbooks.com/book/4377.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/4377.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/4377.mobi