The Magnificent Ambersons: Classic Book Guide and Free Edition
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The Magnificent Ambersons is catalogued by Project Gutenberg with author credits for Tarkington, Booth (1869–1946).
Catalogue synopsis
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"The Magnificent Ambersons" by Booth Tarkington is a novel published in 1918. Set in Indianapolis, it traces three generations of the aristocratic Amberson family from the Civil War to the early twentieth century. As America industrializes, the family's prestige and wealth fade while new industrial fortunes rise. At the center is young George Amberson Minafer, spoiled and arrogant, whose actions threaten his mother's happiness and his own future with Lucy Morgan. The novel won the 1919 Pulitzer Prize.
Book and edition facts
- Title: The Magnificent Ambersons
- Author credits: Tarkington, Booth (1869–1946)
- Catalogue language: English
Catalogue subjects
- Children of the rich -- Fiction
- Domestic fiction
- Indiana -- Fiction
- Inheritance and succession -- Fiction
- Loss (Psychology) -- Fiction
- Mothers and sons -- Fiction
- Psychological fiction
- Social change -- Fiction
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- Category: American Literature
- Category: Novels
- Contemporary Reviews
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