Alice of Old Vincennes
Alice of Old Vincennes, written by Maurice Thompson in 1900, is a novel set in Vincennes during the American Revolutionary War.[1]
The book was a popular best-seller. It was the tenth-highest best selling book in the United States in 1900, and the second best selling book in 1901 (bested only by The Crisis).[2] It was listed as the best-selling book in the United States in six consecutive monthly issues of The Bookman, from January through June 1901 (tied with Eben Holden for two of those months).[3]
Notes
- ↑ Thompson
- ↑ Hackett, Alice Payne. Seventy years of best sellers, 1895-1965, p. 96-97 (1967)
- ↑ (January 1902). Popular Fiction of 1901, The Bookman, pp. 454-55
References
- Thompson, Maurice (1900). Alice of Old Vincennes. Indianapolis: The Bowen-Merrill Company.
External links
Alice of Old Vincennes at Project Gutenberg
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