Magnificent Ambersons
SKU: 9780375752506
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Author:TARKINGTON Booth
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ISBN:9780375752506
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Publication Date:November 1998
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Pages:288
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Binding:Paperback
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Publisher:Random House
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Magnificent Ambersons
SKU: 9780375752506
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Author:TARKINGTON Booth
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ISBN:9780375752506
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Publication Date:November 1998
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Pages:288
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Binding:Paperback
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Publisher:Random House
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Country of Publication:
Description
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time, 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.
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Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time, 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.