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The Magnificent Ambersons

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The Magnificent Ambersons

By: Booth Tarkington
Narrated by: Geoffrey Blaisdell
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The Magnificent Ambersons chronicles the changing fortunes of three generations of an American dynasty. The family serves as a metaphor for the old society that crumbled after the Industrial Revolution, as a Midwestern town spreads and darkens into a city.

George Amberson Minafer is the spoiled and arrogant grandson of the founder of the family's magnificence. Eclipsed by a new breed of industrial tycoons and land developers, whose power comes not through family connections but through financial dealings and modern manufacturing, George descends from the Midwestern aristocracy to the working class. As the wheels of industry transform the social landscape, the definitions of ambition, success, and loyalty also change.

Orson Welles based his classic film of the same name on Tarkington's novel.

(P)2007 Blackstone Audio Inc.
Classics Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Literary Fiction

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Pulitzer Prize, Fiction, 1919

"All fiction collections should own a copy." (Library Journal)

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