The Magnificent Ambersons - Tarkington Newton Booth
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The Magnificent Ambersons is a 1918 novel by Booth Tarkington which
won the 1919 Pulitzer Prize. It was the second novel in the Growth
trilogy, which included The Turmoil (1915) and The Midlander (1923,
retitled National Avenue in 1927). In 1942 Orson Welles directed a
film version, also titled The Magnificent Ambersons.The novel and
trilogy traces the growth of the United States through the
declining fortunes of three generations of the aristocratic
Amberson family in a fictional Mid-Western town, between the end of
the Civil War and the early part of the 20th century, a period of
rapid industrialization and socio-economic change in America. The
decline of the Ambersons is contrasted with the rising fortunes of
industrial tycoons and other new-money families, which did not
derive power from family names but by "doing things". As George
Amberson's friend (name unspecified) says, "don't you think being
things is 'rahthuh bettuh' than doing things?""The Magnificent
Ambersons is perhaps Tarkington's best novel," said 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
Ambersons, their house, their fate and the growth of the community
in which they were submerged in the end."Even though the story is
set in a fictitious city, it was inspired by Tarkington's hometown
of Indianapolis and the neighborhood he once lived in, Woodruff
Place.Source: Wikipedia
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