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The Magnificent Ambersons
The Magnificent Ambersons: (A Modern Library E-Book) | BOOTH TARKINGTON
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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. Today The Magnificent Ambersons is best known through the 1942 Orson Welles movie, but as the critic Stanley Kauffmann noted, "It is high time that [the novel] appear again, to stand outside the force of Welles's genius, confident in its own right." "The Magnificent Ambersons is perhaps Tarkington's best novel," judged 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."
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Kristelh
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#bookspin Pigs in heaven ✔️
#doublespin The Magnificent Ambersons #Pulitzer1919 ✔️
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TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!!! 2y
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ChaoticMissAdventures
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Mehso-so

What a monstrous main character. And racist author. I always try to keep in mind the time a book was written, but every time he uses the word "blackie" I get rage and whiplash.
While overall it is an entertaining story it is not one I would recommend.

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azulaco
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Pickpick

I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Booth Tarkington wrote beautiful prose. I mentioned before that this book reminded me of Edith Wharton - same themes of the old guard's position slipping, and trying to adapt to American modernization and immigration. And, of course, the internal melodramas that these people are living. Recommend to any Wharton fans. I think you'll like it. #litsyatoz #192019 #pulitzer #srcspring2017

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azulaco
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Why don't people read Booth Tarkington anymore? I think his writing is good, downright poetic at times. He reminds me of Edith Wharton. I'm enjoying this book as much as I enjoy a good Wharton novel, which is high praise from me.

Jinjer I loved that book!!!! 8y
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azulaco
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azulaco
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I participate in other challenges, but my main reading challenge, year in and year out, is the Goodreads Seasonal Reading Challenge. I'm excited because I was chosen to create a task for the Spring 2017 challenge! If you're interested, come over and join the Seasonal Reading Challenge group on Goodreads. You can definitely combine it with other challenges. My task will be 20.4 - Golden Oldies, and it'll be up within the week. #srcspring2017

Alicia I used to do this!! It was such a fun way to try to get through my TBR! 8y
azulaco I like it because the challenge only lasts 3 months, and then you get a fresh set of tasks. It's good for shorter attention spans. 😉 Also good when you realize the next few months are going to be super busy, and you can skip the current challenge without much guilt - just pick it up next season. 8y
bookwrm526 I was chosen to create one too, and it's my first time creating one!! I made mine about baseball 8y
azulaco @bookwrm526 Cool! Still writing mine. I think it will be a pretty standard spring weather kind of theme, but that's OK. I got to do one in one of last year's challenges too ☺ 8y
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GoneFishing

No doubt it is true that there is more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner repented than over all the saints who consistently remain holy, and the rare, sudden gentlenesses of arrogant people have infinitely more effect than the continual gentleness of gentle people. Arrogance turned gentle melts the heart.

BeckyD I read this last year, and really enjoyed it. 8y
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LHauser27
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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️to The Magnificent Ambersons. How did this book barely make the Top 100 Books of the Century (at #100)? Best classic I've read!

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Anna_k8t
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I had to read this book for my AP English class this past year. The writing had its flaws, but the story gave a really good insight into the era for which it was written.

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