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Title	:	The Magnificent Ambersons (The Growth Trilogy #2)
Author	:	Booth Tarkington
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 288 pages
Published	:	November 3rd 2006 by Hard Press (first published 1918)
Categories	:	Fiction. Classics. Historical. Historical Fiction

The Magnificent Ambersons (The Growth Trilogy #2)

Booth Tarkington

Paperback | Pages: 288 pages

Rating: 3.77 | 9829 Users | 815 Reviews

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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 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).

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Original Title:	The Magnificent Ambersons
ISBN:	1406935735 (ISBN13: 9781406935738)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	The Growth Trilogy #2
Setting:	Indianapolis, Indiana(United States)
Literary Awards:	Pulitzer Prize for Novel (1919)

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While reading The Magnificent Ambersons, I couldnt help but compare Tarkingtons work to that of his fellow Hoosier, Kurt Vonnegut. I know, completely unfair, as they are of different generations. But I think they share a certain desire to demonstrate the necessity for kindness in an industrial world.Interestingly, the other writer that I kept thinking of was Robertson Davies. Seeing the world from the view point of George Amberson Minifer was a little like looking at Canada through the eyes of

There aren't any old times. When times are gone they're not old, they're dead! There aren't any times but new times! Booth Tarkington, The Magnificent AmbersonsThis is one of those fantastic little classics (it won the Pulitzer Prize's second prize for the Novel category in 1919) that while not exactly ignored, certainly aren't read as frequently today as the author's talent should demand. It was made in 1942 into a movie by Orson Wells (his second film) so it does have that anchor to keep it

Not a memorable story. Descriptions were good but this one wasn't for me.

Winning the Pulitzer Prize in 1919, this book has always been on my vague to-be-read list. Now and then, I think I want to read all the Pulitzer winners, or fiction from the early 20th century, etc. etc. so I was excited to be part of the blog tour for this release. Somehow, I've managed to not only never read this book but also never see any of the film or t.v. versions, so I was really unsure of what I was getting into -- but I immediately loved Tarkington's writing from the first chapter.The

The Magnificent Ambersons, to me, belongs in that naturalistic run of American novels that also includes things like Sister Carrie by Dreiser, and probably dozens of others, and which are intent on getting at what it means to be American while at the same time faithfully recording 'the way it is' (or was, depending on your relative position in time, I suppose). As such, I appreciate these novels for the picture they portray and the craft of the storyteller and the entertainment value of the

This novel was not at all about what I had anticipated it would be, and surprised me in a very good way. Booth Tarkington is one of those names you know, you feel you certainly must have read, but then you realize you never have. I have two of his novels on my Pulitzer challenge, this one and Alice Adams. I am looking forward to the second now that I have sampled the wares.Written in 1918, The Magnificent Ambersons is the story of George Amberson Minafer, a pompous, spoiled, arrogant little SOB

The Magnificent Ambersons barely made the Modern Librarys Top 100 list when they compiled their take on the greatest novels of the 20th century. It sneaks in at the bottom of the list which gives the initial impression that its good, but its not great. Well, if you consider there were a gazillion books written in the 20th century and the Modern Library chose 100 of those as the best, its really an accomplishment to be on the list. Being ranked at 100 still puts this book in the top 0.00001% of