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The Magnificent Ambersons

by Tarkington, Booth

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NY: Doubleday Page, 1918. First edition. Hard cover. Published NY: Doubleday Page, 1918, first printing. Small 8vo., 516 pp., illustrated by Arthur William Brown. Ex-library in library, brown buckram binding with gilt titles. Heavy binder's endpapers added, with library tags. Blind emboss on two pages, no other library stamps or markings in original text block. Twenty or so pages with short closed tears, some running into the text, few pages with small chips off the corner or soiling, else good.. 1st. Hard. Fair/No Jacket. 8vo.. Illus.

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Booth Tarkington’s The Magnificent Ambersons is the second novel in the Growth trilogy, which includes The Turmoil (1915) and The Midlander (1923, retitled National Avenue in 1927). The novel and trilogy trace the growth of the United States through the declining fortunes of three generations of the aristocratic Amberson family in an upscale neighborhood, inspired by Tarkington's hometown of Indianapolis and the neighborhood he once lived in, Woodruff Place. Set 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, who derived power not from family names but by action. The Magnificent Ambersons won the 1919 Pulitzer Prize for novel and is ranked 99th on Modern Library’s “100 Best” English-language novels of the 20th century. In 1942, Orson Welles directed a film version, also titled The Magnificent Ambersons.

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Title
The Magnificent Ambersons
Author
Tarkington, Booth
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Fair
Jacket Condition
No Jacket
Edition
1st
Publisher
Doubleday Page
Place of Publication
NY
Date Published
1918
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Size
8vo.

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