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 'doing things'. 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 upper-scale Indianapolis neighborhood, 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 story is set in a largely fictionalized version of Indianapolis, and much of it was inspired by the neighborhood of Woodruff Place.

Welles's original screenplay was the basis of a 2002 TV movie produced by the A&E Network. In 1942 Orson Welles wrote and directed an acclaimed film adaptation of the book. In 1925 the novel was first adapted for film under the title Pampered Youth. It was the second novel in his Growth trilogy, which included The Turmoil (1915) and The Midlander (1923, retitled National Avenue in 1927). Simply a top copy of this novel considered one of the top fictional works of the 20th Century.The Magnificent Ambersons is a 1918 novel written by Booth Tarkington which won the 1919 Pulitzer Prize for the novel. All pages are tight to spine and book is free of gutter wear or separations of any kind. Frontispiece by Arthur William Brown is a beaut. Interior is very fine with off white cream colored pages free of any rips, tears, creases, writing or blemishes of any kind. Spine is in very nice shape with light fading to gold lettering. Black boards are in top shape with little bumping or edge wear. Book is in FINE (if not better condition). Novel first published in 1918 is considered one of it not Tarkington's finest and was the basis for Orson Welles's follow up to Citizen Kane (with much of the same cast) and is considered by critics a troubled masterpeice as the final cut was taken away from Welles. 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. 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.

Collier & Son Company, New York) of the Booth Tarkington Pulitzer prize winning classic that chronicles the changing fortunes of three generations of an American dynasty. THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS BOOTH TARKINGTON 1926 DOUBLEDAY HC FINE+ CLASSIC FILM!Highly collectible stated 1926 hard cover edition from Doubleday, Page & Co.

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