Can I read Novels & Stories: The Magnificent Ambersons on EtoBox?

Novels & Stories: The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington; Arthur William Brown; Thomas Mallon is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Novels & Stories: The Magnificent Ambersons about?

In his greatest fiction Booth Tarkington wrote about the fragility of status in America’s ruthlessly dynamic society with keen realism and striking psychological insight. Here in one volume, edited by novelist and critic Thomas Mallon, are Tarkington’s best and most enduring works, including the Pulitzer Prize–winning novels The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams . A popular and critical triumph in its day and the inspiration for Orson Welles’s classic 1942 film, The Magnificent Ambersons (1918) is a brilliant family saga and a powerful dramatization of the vast social changes that swept America during the Gilded Age and its aftermath. Having amassed a fortune in the financial panic of 1873, Major Amberson, the family patriarch, established a palatial estate, an ostentatious monument to stability and permanence, in a city modeled closely on Tarkington’s native Indianapolis. But with the advent of new fortunes built on new technologies, especially the automobile, the family’s stature is suddenly imperiled, and the Major’s grandson George Minafer, a spoiled child and an equally insufferable young man, undergoes a “come-upance” of tragicomic proportion. The protagonist of Ali

Author

Booth Tarkington; Arthur William Brown; Thomas Mallon

Publisher

Random House Publishing Services

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9781598536218