The Magnificent Ambersons

Name: The Magnificent Ambersons
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Author: Booth Tarkington
ISBN: 9781433239274

Author: Booth Tarkington

Narrator: Geoffrey Blaisdell

Unabridged: 9 hr 35 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Published: 01/01/2006

Categories: Fiction, Classic

Synopsis

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize when it was published in 1918, The Magnificent Ambersons chronicles the changing fortunes of three generations of an American dynasty. The family serves as a metaphor for the old society that crumbled after the Industrial Revolution while a middlewestern town spread and darkened into a city.

About Booth Tarkington

Booth Tarkington (1869-1946) was an American novelist and dramatist best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning novels The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams. He is one of only three novelists to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once. Much of Tarkington's work consists of satirical and closely observed studies of the American class system and its foibles. He himself came from a patrician family that lost much of its wealth after the Panic of 1873.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Fabian on April 10, 2020

All the tropes of the All-American novel notwithstanding, the best part of "Magnificent Ambersons" is the creation of its protagonist, Georgie Amberson, perennial brat & complete a$$hole. His impressions on the town, of which he is the most affluent and expectation-filled member, of the riffraff, ar......more