The Magnificent Ambersons

Booth Tarkington

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English

Modern Library Inc
15 December 1998

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Series: Modern Library 100 Best Novels

Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time

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.""

By: Booth Tarkington
Imprint: Modern Library Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 131mm, Spine: 16mm
Weight: 243g
ISBN: 9780375752506
ISBN 10: 0375752501
Series: Modern Library 100 Best Novels
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 15 December 1998
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Booth Tarkington (1869-1946), a prolific writer who achieved overnight success with his first novel, The Gentleman from Indiana (1899), is perhaps best remembered as the author of the popular Penrod adventures and Seventeen (1916). He was awarded a second Pulitzer Prize for the novel Alice Adams (1921).