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The Magnificent Ambersons (The Growth Trilogy #2)

Booth Tarkington

Paperback | Pages: 288 pages

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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

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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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Wow, just wow. This is what writing is supposed to be, although I'm having a terrible time putting my feelings into words. I loved the way the author used spoiled, self-centered George to show the reader the changes brought about by modern inventions and industrial growth, instead of telling us about these changes. How refreshing. I did like George a lot, but there were things he did to try to stop those changes in his life, to the point of alienating those he loved most, things that just make

All the tropes of the All-American novel notwithstanding, the best part of "Magnificent Ambersons" is the creation of its protagonist, Georgie Amberson, perennial brat & complete a$$hole. His impressions on the town, of which he is the most affluent and expectation-filled member, of the riffraff, are outstandingly hell-air-eeous! There are multiple love stories, some romantic, some familial. There are several dashes with history, especially with the invention of the automobile. Yup, a novel

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

At the age of nine, George Amberson Minafer, the Major's one grandchild, was a princely terrorI just wanted to throttle George Georgie Minafer through at least the first half, no, three quarters, of this novel. He is a rude, spoilt, obnoxious and down right cruel child and matures into a uppity, self righteous and still over-indulged young adult. So, it was with this frustrated state of mind I energetically ploughed through this seemingly much underrated 1919 Pulitzer Prize Winner. In fact,

Virtually Booth Tarkington's only novel not a juvenile (what 1919 called today's "YA"), THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS is probably his finest of all, and certainly his fullest. Narrated in retrospect (flashback) from the viewpoint of an Indianapolis-like Midwestern city, it tells the tale of the decline and fall of the Amberson clan, who made their haul in real estate and business, only to fall prey to rapid industrialization and the overweening snottiness of that gleaming heir, young Georgie

At this link: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/... Diane, Leslie and I have shared our thoughts as we all read it at the same time. ******************************************There are two reasons to read this book, no three:I wanted to test the author; I had not read him before, and it is considered a classic. Secondly it draws a picture of a time and place - Midwestern America at the turn of the 20th Century. Industrialization, railroads, cars and new opportunities to make something of

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