The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington
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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. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Tarkington, Booth, 1869-1946 |
|---|---|
| Title | The Magnificent Ambersons |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magnificent_Ambersons |
| Credits | Produced by An Anonymous Volunteer, and David Widger |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 79.7 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature |
| Subject | Inheritance and succession -- Fiction |
| Subject | Psychological fiction |
| Subject | Indiana -- Fiction |
| Subject | Domestic fiction |
| Subject | Children of the rich -- Fiction |
| Subject | Mothers and sons -- Fiction |
| Subject | Loss (Psychology) -- Fiction |
| Subject | Social change -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 8867 |
| ISBN (HTML) | 979-8-238-08867-9 |
| Release Date | Sep 1, 2005 |
| Last Update | Mar 18, 2025 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 1366 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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