The magnificent Ambersons
By: Booth Tarkington.
Edition: 1998 Modern Library pbk. ed.
Series: The Modern Library Classics
Publisher: Modern Library
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
Subjects: Inheritance and succession -- Fiction; Children of the rich -- Fiction; Loss (Psychology) -- Fiction; Mothers and sons -- Fiction; Social change -- Fiction; Indiana -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
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.