false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171925907m/127028.jpg 127028 41 <br>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<br>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 Amber-sons, their house, their fate and the growth of the community in which they were submerged in the end." 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). 365539 1918 The Magnificent Ambersons total:666|5:135|4:286|3:192|2:46|1:7| 666 2494 1073 108 4 5 false false Sat Aug 02 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 22 12:26:40 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 23 07:45:05 -0700 2008 more...]]> 0 3 false false Sun Jan 27 18:04:52 -0800 2008 Sun Feb 03 22:06:16 -0800 2008 5 2 false false Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Apr 06 13:20:01 -0700 2007 Fri May 04 19:05:25 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sun Nov 30 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 01 07:37:52 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 01 07:55:46 -0800 2008 1
Like Silas Marner and The Tides of Mont St. Michel, The Magnificent Ambersons tells the story of a man who can begin to live only after he is broken, his sense of his place in the social order rema...more...]]> 4 2 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Apr 04 17:15:42 -0700 2008 Sun Jun 01 14:56:59 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 1 false false Fri Jan 18 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 14 18:43:31 -0800 2008 Sat Jan 19 00:39:56 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Nov 23 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 19 13:45:51 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 23 15:37:17 -0800 2009 Booth Tarkington. I also liked the look of the book: rag pages, red canvas cover, gilt lettering. I bought it for two ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Sep 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 18 11:14:10 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 23 18:01:49 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon Jul 30 10:08:25 -0700 2007 Tue Aug 07 13:49:43 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 21 09:19:57 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 11 10:34:07 -0700 2009 1 Alice Adams. He was the nation's eminent writer of fiction. In the ninety years since then, however, Tarkington has become less a...more...]]> 5 1 false false Fri Aug 31 12:43:50 -0700 2007 Sat Sep 15 11:43:48 -0700 2007 5 0 false false Thu Feb 12 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 12 07:24:21 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 12 07:30:19 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Oct 20 07:47:56 -0700 2009 Fri Nov 20 10:23:42 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue May 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed May 13 09:40:04 -0700 2009 Tue May 19 15:38:44 -0700 2009
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This is a truly moving novel, bringing to mind many feelings and heartbreaks that anyone can relate to.

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