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The Magnificent Ambersons is the 1918 novel by Booth Tarkington which won the 1919 Pulitzer Prize. It is the second novel in The Growth Trilogy, which includes The Turmoil (1915) and The Midlander (1923).The novel and trilogy trace the growth of the United States through the declining fortunes of three generations of the aristocratic Amberson family. It is set in a fictional Mid-Western town, between the end of the Civil War and the early part of the 20th century, a period of rapid industrialisation and socio-economic change. The decline of the Ambersons is contrasted with the rising fortunes of industrial tycoons and other new-money, self-made families. Booth Tarkington (1869-1946) was an American novelist and dramatist. He attended both Purdue University and Princeton, as well as got an honorary doctorate from Columbia. He won the Pulitzer Prize twice, for "The Magnificent Ambersons" (1918) and "Alice Adams" (1921), making him one of only three to win it more than once, putting him alongside William Faulkner and John Updike. Whilst he is less known today, he was considered to be America's greatest living author during the early 20th century.

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Author

Booth Tarkington

Publisher

Random House Publishing Group

Published

1917

Language

EN

ISBN

9780679642008

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction

Rating

4.2 / 5 (976 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14