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The Magnificent Ambersons

by Booth Tarkington
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American dynasty's rise and fall; historically rich.

If you're gripped by family sagas that capture both the personal and the societal, "The Magnificent Ambersons" won't disappoint. You'll journey with the Ambersons through their zenith and nadir, experiencing the profound shifts in American life at the turn of the century. It's a classic tale that intertwines personal pride and societal evolution, all wrapped up in a Pulitzer Prize-winning narrative.

  • Pulitzer Prize for Novel (1919)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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The Magnificent Ambersons

by Booth Tarkington
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ISBN: 9780375752506
Authors: Booth Tarkington
Publisher: Modern Library
Date of Publication: 1998-09-14
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction
Related Topics: Literature, Classics
Goodreads rating: 3.79
(rated by 11558 readers)

Description

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize when it was first published in 1918, The Magnificent Ambersons chronicles the changing fortunes of three generations of an American dynasty. The protagonist of Booth Tarkington's great historical drama is George Amberson Minafer, the spoiled and arrogant grandson of the founder of the family's magnificence. Eclipsed by a new breed of developers, financiers, and manufacturers, this pampered scion begins his gradual descent from the midwestern aristocracy to the working class. Today The Magnificent Ambersons is best known through the 1942 Orson Welles movie, but as the critic Stanley Kauffmann noted, "It is high time that [the novel] appear again, to stand outside the force of Welles's genius, confident in its own right." "The Magnificent Ambersons is perhaps Tarkington's best novel," judged 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."
 

American dynasty's rise and fall; historically rich.

If you're gripped by family sagas that capture both the personal and the societal, "The Magnificent Ambersons" won't disappoint. You'll journey with the Ambersons through their zenith and nadir, experiencing the profound shifts in American life at the turn of the century. It's a classic tale that intertwines personal pride and societal evolution, all wrapped up in a Pulitzer Prize-winning narrative.

  • Pulitzer Prize for Novel (1919)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.