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The Magnificent Ambersons
by Booth Tarkington

***** Pulitzer Prize winner - 1919 *****

Film Based on this Novel: The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
Nominated for 4 Oscars. Another 2 wins
The Magnificent Ambersons is a 1942 American drama film written and directed by Orson Welles. His second feature film, it is based on the 1918 novel of the same title by Booth Tarkington and stars Joseph Cotten, Dolores Costello, Anne Baxter, Tim Holt, Agnes Moorehead and Ray Collins. Welles provides the voiceover narration.

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This book "The Magnificent Ambersons" is part of series of 2 books of "Growth Series"

A trilogy that 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. 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 one Amberson dynasty member says "don't you think being things is 'rahthuh bettuh' than doing things?"

This book was originally published in 1918 (100,013 words) (291 pages)
Categorized as : Fiction

Wikipedia about the Author:
Newton Booth Tarkington (July 29, 1869, Indianapolis – May 19, 1946) was an American novelist and dramatist best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning novels The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams.
The Magnificent Ambersons



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