The Magnificent Ambersons (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Tarkington, Booth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1440064660 ISBN 13: 9781440064661

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2012

Synopsis

Ambersons began then. Magnificence, like the size of a fortune, is always comparative, as even Mag nificent Lorenzo may now perceive, if he has hap pened to haunt New York in 1916; and the Ambersons were magnificent in then day and place. Then splendour lasted throughout all the years that saw their Midland town spread and darken into a city, but reached its topmost during the period when every prosperous family with children kept a New foundland dog.
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Newton Booth Tarkington (July 29, 1869 – May 19, 1946) was an American novelist and dramatist best known for his novels The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams. He is, with William Faulkner and John Updike, one of only three novelists to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once. Tarkington was one of the more popular American novelists of his time. His The Two Vanrevels and Mary’s Neck appeared on the annual best-seller lists a total of nine times. The Penrod novels depict a typical upper-middle class American boy of 1910 vintage, revealing a fine, bookish sense of American humor. At one time, his Penrodseries was as well known as Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. Much of Tarkington’s work consists of satirical and closely observed studies of the American class system and its foibles. He himself came from a patrician Midwestern family that lost much of its wealth after the Panic of 1873. Today, he is best known for his novel The Magnificent Ambersons, which Orson Welles filmed in 1942. The second volume in Tarkington’s Growth trilogy, it contrasted the decline of the “old money” Amberson dynasty with the rise of “new money” industrial tycoons in the years between the American Civil War and World War I.

About this edition

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1440064660
• ISBN 13: 9781440064661
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 532